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Biography of William Wordsworth
Biography of William Wordsworth
He took a walking tour through France, the Alps, and Italy in Upon returning to England, he wrote in support of the French Revolution. In , after receiving an inheritance, he lived with his sister Dorothy in Dorset where he wrote many of his greatest poems. Two years later, his Lyrical Ballads was published and he married Mary Hutchinson in Throughout his life he published several volumes of poetry, received a civil pension, and was appointed poet laureate in Today, Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read for its universal appeal in communicating
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He took a walking tour through France, the Alps, and Italy in Upon returning to England, he wrote in support of the French Revolution.
Short biography of william wordsworth pdf files free He was deeply impressed by the revolutionary spirit and the principles of liberty and egalite. Eliot Analysis and Various Aspects. He had a difficult childhood but developed a love of nature. After graduating from Cambridge, Wordsworth returned to France, where his daughter was born inIn , after receiving an inheritance, he lived with his sister Dorothy in Dorset where he wrote many of his greatest poems. Two years later, his Lyrical Ballads was published and he married Mary Hutchinson in Throughout his life he published several volumes of poetry, received a civil pension, and was appointed poet laureate in Today, Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read for its universal appeal in communicating
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He took a walking tour through France, the Alps, and Italy in Upon returning to England, he wrote in support of the French Revolution. In , after receiving an inheritance, he lived with his sister Dorothy in Dorset where he wrote many of his greatest poems. Two years later, his Lyrical Ballads was published and he married Mary Hutchinson in Throughout his life he published several volumes of poetry, received a civil pension, and was appointed poet laureate in Today, Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read for its universal appeal in communicating
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He took a walking tour through France, the Alps, and Italy in Upon returning to England, he wrote in support of the French Revolution. In , after receiving an inheritance, he lived with his sister Dorothy in Dorset where he wrote many of his greatest poems. Two years later, his Lyrical Ballads was published and he married Mary Hutchinson in Throughout his life he published several volumes of poetry, received a civil pension, and was appointed poet laureate in Today, Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read for its universal appeal in communicating
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Wordsworth, born in his beloved Lake District, was the son of an attorney.
Short biography of william wordsworth pdf files Uploaded by Jo Gutierrez. Wordsworth is considered one of the most important English poets. Sherwood Anderson Biography Document 2 pages. Lucy Gray Document 1 page.He went to
school first at Penrith and then at Hawkshead Grammar school before studying, from
, at St John's College, Cambridge - all of which periods were later to be described
vividly in The Prelude. In he went with friends on a walking tour to France, the
Alps and Italy, before arriving in France where Wordsworth was to spend the next
year.
Whilst in France he fell in love twice over: once with a young French woman, Annette
Vallon, who subsequently bore him a daughter, and then, once more, with the French
Revolution.
Returning to England he wrote, and left unpublished, his Letter to the
Bishop of Llandaff - a tract in support of the French Revolutionary cause. In ,
after receiving a legacy, Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy first in Dorset and
then at Alfoxden, Dorset, close to Coleridge.
In these years he wrote many of his greatest poems and also travelled with Coleridge
and Dorothy, in the winter of , to Germany.
Two years later the second and
enlarged edition of the Lyrical Ballads appeared in , just one year before
Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson. This was followed, in , by the
publication of Poems in Two Volumes, which included the poems 'Resolution and
Independence' and 'Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood'.
During this period he also made new friendships with Walter Scott, Sir G.
Beaumont
and De Quincy, wrote such poems as 'Elegaic Stanzas suggested by a Picture of Peele
Castle' (), and fathered five children. He received a civil list pension in and
was made poet-laureate just one year later.
Today Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read. Its almost universal appeal is
perhaps best explained by Wordsworth's own words on the role, for him, of poetry;
what he called "the most philosophical of all writing" whose object is "truthcarried
alive into the heart by passion".
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