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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) 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 (1798).
Guide to the Lakes, more fully A Guide through the District of the Lakes, William Wordsworth's travellers' guidebook to England's Lake District, has been studied by scholars both for its relationship to his Romantic poetry and as an early influence on 19th-century geography. Originally written because Wordsworth needed money, the first version ...
The Nights also had an influence on modern Japanese literature. George Fyler Townsend 's revised edition of the Arabian Nights was the first "European" literary work to be translated into the Japanese language during the Meiji era , by Nagamine Hideki in 1875.
William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older ...
July 31 – William Wordsworth, leaving London for Dover and Calais with Dorothy, witnesses an early morning scene he captures in a Petrarchan sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge". In Calais, he will meet his 9-year-old illegitimate daughter Caroline for the first time.
The book became hugely popular and was published widely; it is generally considered a herald of the Romantic movement in English literature. [3] [4] In it, Wordsworth aimed to use everyday language in his compositions [5] as set out in the preface to the 1802 edition: "The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents ...
Book Second: School-time (continued) 1799–1805 "Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Third: Residence at Cambridge 1799–1805 "It was a dreary morning when the wheels" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fourth: Summer Vacation 1799 ...
Wordsworth borrowed a copy while still a schoolboy, and the poem's influence on his Tintern Abbey and The Prelude is widely recognised. [9] The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing read three books of the poem in April 1892, describing it as "rather a favourite of mine, oddly".