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William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), a major English romantic poet

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{i} family name; William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English poet

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850); a major English romantic poet who helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature. Wordsworth was Englands Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850

a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

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Dorothy Wordsworth

born Dec. 25, 1771, Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng. died Jan. 25, 1855, Rydal Mount, Westmorland English writer. An inspiring influence on her brother William Wordsworth, she lived with him from 1795 onward. Her Alfoxden Journal 1798 (1897) from the period when he and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads (1798) and Grasmere Journals 1800-03 (1897) are intimate records of their lives. Both are appreciated for their imaginative descriptions of nature, their perfection of style, and their revelation of her personality as well as for the light they throw on her brother. In 1829 severe illness left her an invalid, and her mind was clouded in her last 20 years

William Wordsworth

a British Romantic poet whose poems are mainly about the beauty of nature. They often describe the countryside in the Lake District in northwest England, where he went to live in the village of Grasmere with his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), who was also a writer. His best-known book of poetry is Lyrical Ballads, which was written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and his most famous poems include Daffodils and The Prelude (1770-1850). born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng. died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland English poet. Orphaned at age 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge University, but he remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. He became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth's contributions include "Tintern Abbey" and many lyrics controversial for their common, everyday language. About 1798 he began writing The Prelude (1850), the epic autobiographical poem that would absorb him intermittently for the next 40 years. His second verse collection, Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), includes many of the rest of his finest works, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality." His poetry is perhaps most original in its vision of the organic relation between man and the natural world, a vision that culminated in the sweeping metaphor of nature as emblematic of the mind of God. The most memorable poems of his middle and late years were often cast in elegaic mode; few match the best of his earlier works. By the time he became widely appreciated by the critics and the public, his poetry had lost much of its force and his radical politics had yielded to conservatism. In 1843 he became England's poet laureate. He is regarded as the central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism

William Wordsworth

{i} (1770-1850) English poet

Hyphenation

Words·worth

Turkish pronunciation

wırdzwırth

Pronunciation

/ˈwərdzwərᴛʜ/ /ˈwɜrdzwɜrθ/