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Classed as (by Wordsworth) Publication date Lines written as a School Exercise 1785 Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14. Lines on the Bicentenary of Hawkshead School. "And has the Sun his flaming chariot driven" Juvenile Pieces: Unknown Extract 1786 From the Conclusion of a Poem Composed in Anticipation of Leaving School
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).
Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home near Grasmere in the Lake District. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District and spent much of his life living there. Wordsworth and his friends Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge became known as Lake Poets not only because they lived in this area but also because its landscapes and people inspired their work.
the great lyrics written at Goslar, the 'Matthew' poems and the 'Lucy' poems, strongly indicate that even in the earliest phase, those years when Wordsworth spoke most confidently of the Utopian possibilities held out to man by nature, his optimism was tempered by at least momentary misgivings, recognition that there are areas of human ...
Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Wrangham would push a softer approach. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of "Out of the frying pan, into the fire".
The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads , a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a ...
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in Lyrical Ballads , 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement .
Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, the second of five children. [6] His sister, the poet, and diarist Dorothy, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptized together.