William WORDSWORTH

William WORDSWORTH

1. Lake District (Cumbria) 1770-1850

   • Cambridge
     • walking tour (France-Italy)
       • French Revolution supporter
         • "Terror" = disillusion
       • London with Dorothy
         • Godwin and Coleridge
           • Poet Laureate 1843

2. Romantic writer

   • works
     • An Evening walk 1793
       • Descreptive sketches 1793
         • Masterpiece
           • Lyrical Ballads (1798-1800-1802)
             • Preface
               • poetic manifesto
             • I wandered lonely as a cloud
               • nature = mirror of divine
                 • drescription from everyday life
                   • recollection of emotions and feelings
                     • simple language "of men"
                       • poet
                         • ordinary
                           • contact with everyday world
                         • extraordinary
                           • prophet/divine faculty
                   • daffodils
                     • inversion of prospective
                       • harmony
           • Biographia Literaria 1817
             • The Prelude 1850
               • 14 books
                 • growth of poet's mind
       • travel diaries

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