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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in 1770 in England. He attended school where he developed a love of poetry. Both of his parents died when he was young, leaving him an orphan. After school, he traveled through Europe, experiences that influenced his poetry. He published his earliest works in 1793 and had a pivotal meeting with poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. Wordsworth is best known for his famous work The Prelude considered one of the greatest works of English romanticism, though it was published after his death in 1850.

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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in 1770 in England. He attended school where he developed a love of poetry. Both of his parents died when he was young, leaving him an orphan. After school, he traveled through Europe, experiences that influenced his poetry. He published his earliest works in 1793 and had a pivotal meeting with poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. Wordsworth is best known for his famous work The Prelude considered one of the greatest works of English romanticism, though it was published after his death in 1850.

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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in 1770 in England. He attended school where he developed a love of poetry. Both of his parents died when he was young, leaving him an orphan. After school, he traveled through Europe, experiences that influenced his poetry. He published his earliest works in 1793 and had a pivotal meeting with poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. Wordsworth is best known for his famous work The Prelude considered one of the greatest works of English romanticism, though it was published after his death in 1850.

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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in 1770 in England. He attended school where he developed a love of poetry. Both of his parents died when he was young, leaving him an orphan. After school, he traveled through Europe, experiences that influenced his poetry. He published his earliest works in 1793 and had a pivotal meeting with poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. Wordsworth is best known for his famous work The Prelude considered one of the greatest works of English romanticism, though it was published after his death in 1850.

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    William Wordsworth.

    William Wordsworth was born on April


    7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumbria,
    England. Wordsworth's mother died
    when he was eight--this experience
    shapes much of his later work.
    Wordsworth attended Hawkshead
    Grammar School, where his love of poetry was
    firmly established and, it is believed, he made his
    first attempts at verse. While he was at
    Hawkshead, Wordsworth's father died leaving
    him and his four siblings orphans.

    After Hawkshead, Wordsworth studied at St.


    John's College in Cambridge and before his final
    semester, he set out on a walking tour of Europe,
    an experience that influenced both his poetry and
    his political sensibilities. While touring Europe,
    Wordsworth came into contact with the French
    Revolution.

    This experience as well as a subsequent period


    living in France brought about Wordsworth's
    interest and sympathy for the life, troubles and
    speech of the "common man". These issues
    proved to be of the utmost importance to
    Wordsworth's work. Wordsworth's earliest poetry
    was published in 1793 in the collections An
    Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.

    While living in France, Wordsworth conceived a


    daughter, Caroline, out of wedlock; he left France,
    however, before she was born. In 1802, he
    returned to France with his sister on a four-week
    visit to meet Caroline. Later that year, he married
    Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, and they
    had five children together. In 1812, while living in
    Grasmere, they grieved the loss of two of their
    children, Catherine and John, who both died that
    year.

    Equally important in the poetic life of Wordsworth


    was his 1795 meeting with the poet, Samuel
    Taylor Coleridge. It was with Coleridge that
    Wordsworth published the famous Lyrical Ballads
    in 1798.

    While the poems themselves are some of the


    most influential in Western literature, it is the
    preface to the second edition that remains one of
    the most important testaments to a poet's views
    on both his craft and his place in the world. In the
    preface Wordsworth writes on the need for
    "common speech" within poems and argues
    against the hierarchy of the period which valued
    epic poetry above the lyric.

    Wordsworth's most famous work, The Prelude


    (1850), is considered by many to be the crowning
    achievement of English romanticism. The poem,
    revised numerous times, chronicles the spiritual
    life of the poet and marks the birth of a new
    genre of poetry.

    Although Wordsworth worked on The Prelude


    throughout his life, the poem was published
    posthumously. Wordsworth spent his final years
    settled at Rydal Mount in England, travelling and
    continuing his outdoor excursions.
    Devastated by the death of his daughter Dora in
    1847, Wordsworth seemingly lost his will to
    compose poems. William Wordsworth died at
    Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850, leaving his wife
    Mary to publish The Prelude three months later.

    A Selected Bibliography

    Poetry

    An Evening Walk (1793)


    Borders (1795)
    Complete Poetical Works (1971)
    Descriptive Sketches (1793)
    Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822)
    Intimations of Immortality (1806)
    Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey (1798)
    Lyrical Ballads (1798)
    Memorials of a Tour of the Continent (1822)
    Miscellaneous Sonnets (1807)
    Peter Bell (1819)
    Poems (1977)
    Poems I-II (1807)
    Selected Poems (1959)
    The Excursion (1814)
    The Poetical Works (1949)
    The Prelude Or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850)
    The Recluse (1888)
    The River Duddon (1820)
    The Waggoner (1819)
    The White Doe of Rylstone (1815)
    Upon Westminster Bridge (1801)
    Yarrow Revisited (1835)

    Prose

    Letters of Dorothy and William Wordsworth


    (1967)
    Letters of the Wordsworth Family (1969)
    Literary Criticism (1966)
    Prose Works (1896)
    Prose Works (1974)
    The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth
    (1981)

    Essays

    Essay Upon Epitaphs (1810)

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