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Oct 6, 2018 · A personal and critical appreciation of the life and works of the English Romantic poet, who wrote of walks and of the man with a sincere voice. The article ranks his eight greatest poems, from Daffodils to The Prelude, and quotes some of his most memorable lines.
For the British academic and journalist in India, see William Christopher Wordsworth. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) 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).
Jul 30, 2024 · William Wordsworth (1770–1850) produced some of the greatest English poems of the late 1700s and early 1800s. In contrast to the decorum of much 18th-century verse, he wanted to relate “situations from common life” in “language really used by men,” embodying “the spontaneous overflow of feelings…recollected in tranquility” (preface to Lyrical Ballads [1802]).
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- William Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District of northern England. There he spent much of his boyhood playing outdoors and exploring the mountain...
- Stirred simultaneously by walks in the English countryside and by his relationships with his sister Dorothy and English poet-critic Samuel Taylor C...
Mar 6, 2017 · Learn about the life and works of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, who co-authored Lyrical Ballads and became the UK Poet Laureate. Discover his famous poems on nature, London, daffodils, and more.
Aug 23, 2022 · William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was an English poet whose poetry is still widely read. ... 10 Best American Novelists And Their Most Famous Works.
- Published: 1807This sonnet describes an evening walk on the beach which Wordsworth took with his nine years old daughter Caroline in Calais, France...
- Published: 1800After Wordsworth’s death, critics and publishers grouped five of his poems written between 1798 and 1801 as “Lucy poems”. All of the...
- Published: 1807In Intimations of Immortality the narrator realizes that his divine relationship with nature has been lost. It is based on the belie...
By December 1799 William and Dorothy Wordsworth were living in Dove Cottage, at Town End, Grasmere. In May 1802 Sir James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale, died, and, though the litigation over his debt to the estate of Wordsworth’s father had not been settled, his heir, Sir William Lowther, agreed to pay the Wordsworth children the entire sum.
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William Wordsworth - William Wordsworth, who rallied for “common speech” within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in Western literature, including his most famous work, The Prelude, which is often considered to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism.
