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William Wordsworth

Biography William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Life

  • In 1792 he had a daughter, Caroline, from a French aristocratic woman, Annette Vallon.
  • The Reign of Terror and the war between England and France caused him to return to England. He was disappointed by the period of terror.
  • He went to live with his sister Dorothy, in close contact with nature, but for a few years he lived in Somerset, near his friend Coleridge, with whom he collaborated in the 1797-1799 period to write Lyrical Ballads.
  • He got married with a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson, and had 5 children.
  • In 1843 he became Poet Laureate.
  • He became more conservative and went on writing poems until his death in 1850.

Main Works

  • Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798).
  • Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800). This edition contains the famous Preface, the Manifesto of English Romanticism.

Man and Nature

  • Wordsworth is usually considered “the poet of nature”, but his poems contain very little natural description.
  • He was more interested in the relationship between the natural world and human consciousness.
  • He thought that man and nature are inseparable and that there are values in nature. It is from nature that man learns joy and love.
  • Wordsworth exploited the sensibility of the eye and ear to perceive the beauty of nature.

Wordsworth’s Style

  • Wordsworth was interested in ordinary, everyday world and in the common life of simple, rustic people (which was full of moral values).
  • He used simple, everyday language, and was against poetic diction (=sophisticated language)

The Morning Of The Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816

William Wordsworth January

Composed After A Journey Across The Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire

William Wordsworth

The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons – Dedication

William Wordsworth

Tribute To The Memory Of The Same Dog

William Wordsworth

The Martial Courage Of A Day Is Vain

William Wordsworth

To The Same (John Dyer)

William Wordsworth

Sonnet: It is not to be thought of that the Flood

William Wordsworth

Repentance

William Wordsworth

Bothwell Castle

William Wordsworth

Is There A Power That Can Sustain And Cheer

William Wordsworth

Ode To Lycoris. May 1817

William Wordsworth

Descriptive Sketches Taken During A Pedestrian Tour Among The Alps

William Wordsworth

The King Of Sweden

William Wordsworth

To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country

William Wordsworth

How Sweet It Is, When Mother Fancy Rocks

William Wordsworth

Book Twelfth [imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ]

William Wordsworth Narrative

I Know An Old Man Constrained To Dwell

William Wordsworth Change, Child, Children, Evil, Fate, House, Lost, Peace, Power, Tree

Extract From The Conclusion Of A Poem Composed In Anticipation Of Leaving School

William Wordsworth

The Mother’s Return

William Wordsworth Brother, Change, Child, Children, Dance, Green, Happy, Hope, Joy, Mother, Running, Sister, Star, Summer, Sun, Sympathy, Together, Travel, Winter

To The Memory Of Raisley Calvert

William Wordsworth

Book Fourth [summer Vacation]

William Wordsworth

Composed On The Eve Of The Marriage Of A Friend In The Vale Of Grasmere

William Wordsworth

Book Sixth [cambridge And The Alps]

William Wordsworth Narrative

The Faëry Chasm

William Wordsworth

Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind

William Wordsworth

The Virgin

William Wordsworth Heaven, Moon, Mother, Nature, Ocean, Power, Rose, Sky, Woman, Women

The Pet-Lamb

William Wordsworth

To The Poet, John Dyer

William Wordsworth

Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals

William Wordsworth

It Is Not To Be Thought Of

William Wordsworth Dark, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Lost, Sea, Spring, Water, World

O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied

William Wordsworth

Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816

William Wordsworth February

From The Cuckoo And The Nightingale

William Wordsworth

Methought I Saw The Footsteps Of A Throne

William Wordsworth

Translation Of Part Of The First Book Of The Aeneid

William Wordsworth

I Grieved For Buonaparte

William Wordsworth

Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise

William Wordsworth

The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons – Canto Fourth

William Wordsworth

The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons – Canto Fifth

William Wordsworth

The Sparrow’s Nest

William Wordsworth Father, Fear, Heart, Home, House, Joy, Sister, Together

The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer]

William Wordsworth

The Russian Fugitive

William Wordsworth Beauty, Child, Dark, Destiny, Farewell, Father, Fear, Green, Heaven, House, Joy, Light, Lonely, Mother, Nature, Power, Rose, Thanks, Travel, Wind

To The Same Flower (Second Poem)

William Wordsworth Flower, Heaven, Nature, Peace, Poem, Silver, Star, Sun, World

By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After

William Wordsworth

From The Italian Of Michael Angelo

William Wordsworth

Inscriptions In The Ground Of Coleorton, The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire

William Wordsworth

The Waggoner – Canto Fourth

William Wordsworth

The Oak Of Guernica Supposed Address To The Same

William Wordsworth

To Thomas Clarkson

William Wordsworth

England IV

William Wordsworth Dark, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Lost, Sea, Spring, Water, World

The Prelude, Book 1: Childhood And School-Time

William Wordsworth Alone, Childhood, Fear, Hope, Joy, Memory, Moon, Nature, School, Sky, Solitude, Sometimes, Star, Summer, Sun, Time, Tree, Water, Wind, Work

To The Daisy

William Wordsworth April, Autumn, Child, Flower, Friend, Future, Green, Happy, Lost, Memory, Nature, Power, Rain, Rose, Spring, Summer, Sun, Sunshine, Sympathy, Winter

The Kitten And Falling Leaves

William Wordsworth Baby, Fear, Fire, Grief, Happy, Joy, Light, Nature, Power, Sky, Sleep, Song, Sorrow, Sun, Tiger, Tree, Work

Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Yarrow Unvisited

William Wordsworth

Brave Schill! By Death Delivered

William Wordsworth

Stray Pleasures

William Wordsworth

Song Of The Spinning Wheel

William Wordsworth

Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate

William Wordsworth

To A Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, Upon Loch Lomond)

William Wordsworth Beautiful, Beauty, Brother, Dream, Father, Freedom, Girl, Happy, Heaven, Home, Innocence, Joy, Lonely, Memory, Sea, Thanks, Together, Truth, Water, Wind

To The Supreme Being From The Italian Of Michael Angelo

William Wordsworth

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