William Wordsworth: English poet(1770-1850 Orphaned at 13, Wordsworth attended cambridge Univ, but remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister d. wordsworth. He became friends with S. T. Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads(1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English romantic Movement. Wordsworth's contributions include Tintern Abbey and many lyrics controversial for their common, everyday language. Around 1798 he began writing the epic autobiographical poem that would absorb him intermittently for the next 40 years, The Prelude(1850)
• William Wordsworth: English poet (1770—1850). Orphaned at 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge Univ., but remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister D. Wordsworth. He became friends with S. T. Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English Romantic Movement. Wordsworth's contributions include “Tintern Abbey” and many lyrics controversial for their common, everyday language. Around 1798 he began writing the epic autobiographical poem that would absorb him intermittently for the next 40 years, The Prelude (1850)
His second verse collection. Poems in Two Volumes (1807), includes many of the rest of his finest works including Ode: Intimations oflmmortality. His poetry is perhaps most original in its vision of the almost divine power of the creative imagination reforging the links between man and man. between human kind and the natural world. The most memorable poems of his middle and late years were often cast in elegiac mode, few match the best of his earlier works. By the time he became widely appreciated by the critics and the public, his poetry had lost much of its force and his radical politics had yielded to conservatism. In 1843 he became England's poet laureate. He is regarded as the central figure in the initiation of English romanticism
His second verse collection, Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), includes many of the rest of his finest works, including Ode: Intimations of Immortality. His poetry is perhaps most original in its vision of the almost divine power of the creative imagination reforging the links between man and man, between humankind and the natural world. The most memorable poems of his middle and late years were often cast in elegiac mode; few match the best of his earlier works. By the time he became widely appreciated by the critics and the public, his poetry had lost much of its force and his radical politics had yielded to conservatism. In 1843 he became England's poet laureate. He is regarded as the central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism