William Wordsworth

Date of Birth:

07-Apr-1770

Nationality:

United Kingdom

Profession:

Poet

Born in England in 1770, the poet William Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Lyrical Ballads (1798). The collection, which contained Wordworth's "Tintern Abbey," introduced Romanticism into English poetry. Voiceworth had visited France in 1790, during the French Revolution — and was a supporter of the new government's ideals. When she returned to France the following year, she fell in love with Annette Vallon, who became pregnant. However, the declaration of war between England and France in 1793 distinguished the two. From left and low-income in England, Wordsworth is influenced by critics such as William Godwin. As he grew older, Skyworth began to reject corruption. In 1813, he was named a stamp divider and moved his family to a new home in the Lake District. In 1818, Voiceworth was an ardent supporter of the Conservative Tories. Although Dicworthworth continued to produce poetry - including the work of easing the tragic death of his two children in 1812 - he had achieved a masterpiece between 1798 and 1808. It was this first work that cemented his reputation as a famous literary figure. In 1843, Wordsworth became an English poet, a position he held for the rest of his life. At the age of 80, he died on April 23, 1850, at his home in Rydal Mount, Westmorland, England.

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William Wordsworth

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QUOTES BY William Wordsworth

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

“All that we behold is full of blessings.”

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”

“Duty were our games.”

“But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”

“The world is too much with us.”

“Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.”

“Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.”

“The child is father of the man”