William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth|biography&Works
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| William Wordsworth|biography&Works |
The famous English romantic poet William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland, England, April 7, 1770. His father John Wordsworth was 'attorney-at-law'. Both of his parents died when he was a boy. He went to St. John's College, Cambridge in 1787. He was a high priest of nature. He was the first romantic poet influenced by the French Revolution. He got married to Mary Hutchinson. At the university, he composed some poetry which appeared in 1793. The collections which appeared at the university was An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
The first fruit of Wordsworth's genius was seen in the "Lyrical Ballads". It was published in 1798 at Bristol. It was a joint production of Wordsworth and Coleridge. He composed some of his finest poems in 1798-99. The total number of poems induced in Lyrical Ballads is 23. Wordsworth's purpose in Lyrical Ballads was to make the familiar unfamiliar. Lyrical Ballads opens with Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and ends with Tintern Abbey.
The credit for originating the Romantic Movement goes to the great poet Wordsworth. Age of Wordsworth is also called Romantic age. It starts from 1798 with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth has been attacked by Robert Browning in the poem "The Lost Leader". The name of Wordsworth's sister was Dorothy. He was appointed poet laureate in 1843. He died in 1850.
- His main works
- The Prelude(autobiographical poem)
- The Excursion
- Lucy Gray
- The Leach Gatherer
- Michael
- The Daffodils
- To the Cuckoo
- The Solitary Reaper
- Ode To Duty
- Tintern Abbey
- To Milton (London,1802)
- The World Is Too Much with Us
- Ode on Intimations Of Immortality
- The French Revolution
