![]() ![]() In it, Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry, one based on the "real language of men" and which avoids the poetic diction of much eighteenth-century poetry. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is considered a central work of Romantic literary theory. Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work in the English Romantic movement. In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, moved to Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey. The two poets quickly developed a close friendship. In 1795 he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. In 1793 Wordsworth published the poetry collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In 1802 Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, visited Annette and Caroline in France. It is likely that Wordsworth would have been depressed during the 1790s. War between France and Britain prevented him from seeing Annette and Caroline again for several years. But he supported Annette Vallon and his daughter as best he could in later life. Because he was poor and there were tensions between Britain and France, he returned alone to England the next year. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline. In November 1791, Wordsworth returned to France and took a walking tour of Europe that included the Alps and Italy. Three years later, in 1790, he visited Revolutionary France and supported the Republican movement, although the Reign of Terror later made him change his mind.(see Prelude book 10) The following year, he graduated from Cambridge. Wordsworth went to St John's College, Cambridge in 1787. It took him many years, and much writing, to recover from the death of his parents. In 1783 his father, a lawyer and a solicitor, died.Īlthough many aspects of his boyhood were positive, he remembered times of loneliness and anxiety. After the death of his mother in 1778, his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. Wordsworth was born as second of five children in the Lake District. Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.īiography Early life and education Many people think that The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years is his masterpiece. ![]() William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an important poet of the Romantic Age in English literature. Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England ![]()
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