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Wordsworth’s Connection to Nature
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On the day of April 7th 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland of England, William Wordsworth was born. He grew up to become one of the most famous Romantic poets who helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature. The glorious landscape of England deeply affected Wordsworth’s imagination and gave him a love of nature. Wordsworth made…
Tenets Of Wordsworth In Resolution And Independence
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Romanticism officially began in 1798, when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymously published Lyrical Ballads. This work marked the official beginning of a literary period which had already begun many old ages before 1798. A work is defined to be of a certain period by its features, hence to be considered a Romantic work,…
“The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth
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The poem “The World is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth is a sort of an accusation to the people living in the modern age. Wordsworth thinks that modern age people have lost its relationship to nature, thus all things that are meaningful. The anger by the poet can be felt in the…
Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and Colderidges’ Kubla Khan Analysis
Kubla Khan
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When comparing William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey. and Samuel Colderidge’s “Kubla Khan” . one notices a distinguishable difference in the usage of imaginativeness within the two verse forms. Even though the two poets were coevalss and friends. Wordsworth and Colderidge each have an original and different manner in which they introduce images and thoughts into their…
Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “Tintern Abbey”
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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Wordsworth’s poems initiated the Romantic era by emphasizing feeling, instinct, and pleasure above the formality and mannerism of the preceding neo-classical style. The themes that run through Wordsworth’s poetry and the language and imagery he uses to embody those themes remain consistent throughout most of his works. One of the loveliest and most famous in…
Comparison and contrast between Blake and Wordsworth’s views Sample
Modernization theory
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Poetry was an foreigner to the cold. efficient. passionless environment of the Industrial Revolution. Romantics of all humanistic disciplines criticized the altering ways of life and idealized the pre-industrial revolution epoch. London was the oasis to this revolution. and the snake pit to all poesy. William Wordsworth and William Blake both denounced London’s new environment…
| born | April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, United Kingdom |
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| died | April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount & Gardens, Rydal, United Kingdom |
| description | William Wordsworth 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. |
| education | University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, St John's College |
| children | Dora Wordsworth, Catherine Wordsworth, Anne-Caroline Wordsworth |
| quotations | “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” “Though nothing can bring back the hour. “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.,To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. |
| information | Spouse: Mary Hutchinson (m. 1802–1850) |
