Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
TOPIC

• Romantic Poet

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Life of Wordsworth

• William Wordsworth was born on April 17, 1770,
  just outside the Lake District in the quaint
  market town of Cocker mouth, Cambria.
• William was the second of five children. After
  his mothers death in 1778, he was sent to
  Hawkshead Grammar School this is where his love
  for poetry was first established. Five years
  later, his father died.
• In 1790, Wordsworth quit school at St.Johns in
  Cambridge to partake in a walking tour of Europe.
• In 1793, Wordsworths first works, An Evening
  Walk and Descriptive Sketches, were published but
  received little notice.
• In 1794,Wordsworth was reunited with his
  sister, Dorothy shortly after, he met another
  poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and they became
  close friends.
• Wordsworth and Coleridge saw the poetry of the
  Neo-classical period as stale and un-relatable to
  the public. The two Poets initiated the Romantic
  era with their collaborative creation, Lyrical
  Ballads, Which contained old themes and new
  subjects.
•  In 1802,Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson in
  the Brampton Church. She was the inspiration for
  his poem, She Was A Phantom of Delight.
• By 1810, they had five children however, two of
  their deaths in1812 caused Wordsworth great
  sorrow. His poem, Surprised By Joy, reflects
  his anguish.
• Shortly after, Wordsworth and his family settled
  at Rydal Mount where he continued to write poetry
  for the remainder of his life. In 1843, he became
  England's poet laureate.
• He died on April 23, 1850, and is buried at St
  Oswald's Church in Grasmere.

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INFLUENCE ON WORDSWORTH
Every writer is influenced by a number of
factors. So was William Wordsworth . No doubt ,
he was a poet of original genius. But the
influence of a number of persons , including some
of his friends, and contemporary events on him
cannot be ruled out. He was considerably
influenced by the following
Dorothy Wordsworth- Wordsworth and Dorothy
were very intimately attached to each other.
After his wandering life, Wordsworth came to
settle with Dorothy at Racedown in 1795. Her
company let a special charm to the beauties of
nature and this made Wordsworth yearn all the
more for her when she was away from him. She had
a fair perception of the beauties of nature and a
great skill in description, as may be seen from
her journals. By Dorothys calm and soothing
influence, Wordsworth was able to recover from
the mood of gloom and despair.
S.T.Coleridge-
Besides his sister Dorothy the only other person
that Wordsworth acknowledged as having a hand in
his recovery and as influencing his intellect,
was Coleridge. Coleridge inspired Wordsworth by
his company as well as by timely appreciation.
Once he spoke of Wordsworth as the best poet of
the age. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge lived in
great mutual harmony. In 1798 they published the
book Lyrical Ballads, which achieved a revolution
in literary taste and sensibility. Lyrical
Ballads included Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and
Coleridge's famous poems, the Ancient Mariner and
The Nightingale.
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Wordsworth has an exalted conception of
poetry. According to him poetry is the breath
and finer spirit of all knowledge it is
impassioned expression which is in the
countenance of all science. He not only defines
poetry but also explains too the process
involved in the production of poetry. His theory
of poetry is comprehensive in the sense that it
tells us the qualification of the poet, the
function of poetry and recommends the language of
poetry. This theory is valid because it comes
from a poet who practiced it himself in his
poetry. Wordsworth says poetry is
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings to
takes its origin from emotion recollected in
tranquility the emotion is contemplated till, by
a species of reactions, the tranquility
disappears, an emotion kindred to that which was
before the subject of itself actually exit in the
mind. In this mood, successful composition begins
and in a similar mood it is carried out to be
continued.
Poetry is the spontaneous over flow of powerful
feelings recollected in tranquility
Wordsworths Theory of Poetry
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My Heart Leaps Up or The Rainbow
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DAFFODILS

• I wandered lonely as a cloud
• That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
• When all at once I saw a crowd,
• A host, of golden daffodils
• Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
• Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
• "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance"
• Continuous as the stars that shine
• And twinkle on the Milky Way,
• They stretched in never-ending line
• Along the margin of a bay
• Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
• Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
• The waves beside them danced but they

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their
heads in sprightly dance.
-William Wordsworth

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Three Years She Grew
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• Works of Wordsworth
• Poetry
• An Evening Walk (1793)Descriptive Sketches
  (1793)Borders (1795)Lines Written Above Tintern
  Abbey (1798)Lyrical Ballads (1798)Upon
  Westminster Bridge (1801)Intimations of
  Immortality (1806)Miscellaneous Sonnets
  (1807)Poems I-II (1807)The Excursion (1814)The
  White Doe of Rylstone (1815)Peter Bell
  (1819)The Waggoner (1819)The River Duddon
  (1820)Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822)Memorials
  of a Tour of the Continent (1822)Yarrow
  Revisited (1835)The Prelude Or Growth of a
  Poet's Mind (1850)The Recluse (1888)The
  Poetical Works (1949)Selected Poems
  (1959)Complete Poetical Works (1971)Poems
  (1977)
• Prose
• Prose Works (1896) Literary Criticism (1966)
  Letters of Dorothy and William Wordsworth (1967)
  Letters of the Wordsworth Family (1969) Prose
  Works (1974) The Love Letters of William and
  Mary Wordsworth (1981)
• Essays
• Essay Upon Epitaphs (1810)
• Famous Poems of Wordsworth
• Daffodils
• I wandered lonely as a cloud
• A Character
• A Farewell
• The Solitary Reaper
• A Night Thought
• A Complaint

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