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William Wordsworth
Lecture Outline
experience and literary works
and Lake Poets
3. The characteristics and literary position

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Life Experience
Mother died when he was eight and Father died when he was 13
Separated from his sister, Dorothy, in 1778 and did not see her again until 1787
Visited France in 1790
In 1795 the Wordsworths stayed in a cottage in Dorset, where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. In the years ahead a close relationship developed between William, Dorothy and Coleridge.
poet laureate
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Representative of the Romantic poets.
His poetry is a voice of comprehensive humanity and one that inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically and naturally.
Distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language spoken by the peasants.
His Sister Dorothy
Made him turn his eyes to “the face of nature” and take an interest in the peasants.
Induced him to transform his observation of the landscape into the revelation of the beauty of nature in poetry.
Wordsworth wrote of her:
“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.”
his sister, Dorothy
His wife Mary
in 1802, Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson
Gravestone of Wordsworth, Grasmere
Literary Career
British poet, who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, in his poem, he aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, so he used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the