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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 ...
Coleridge and Wordsworth, along with Carlyle, were major influences through Emerson, on American transcendentalism. [23] Among Wordsworth's most important poems are Michael, Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Resolution and Independence, Ode: Intimations of Immortality and the long, autobiographical epic The Prelude.
The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...
Upon Hearing Of The Death Of The Late Vicar Of Kendal "To public notice, with reluctance strong," Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces: 1815 To B. R. Haydon 1815, December "High is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1816, 31 March Artegal and Elidure 1815 "Where be the temples which, in Britain's Isle," Poems founded on the ...
The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes.Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers ...
In 1799, Wordsworth completed a version of his Prelude, which was, according to Stephen Gill, "the most sustained self-examination in English poetry". [6] In Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude , he attempted to write a biography about the growth of his mind from childhood to the current time.
William Shuter, Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1798. The earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" [1] The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801.