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Introduction
This work report is about William
Wordsworth who was a great romantic
poet. Some of his main literary works are:

Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The

Excursion, The Prelude, I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud.
His literary works are usually about: loss,
death, endurance, separation and abandonment, the human mind and nature.
Our work presents the biography in a creative way so you can know some details of his
life and some of the most outstanding poems, specially: The Prelude, that shows the
early years of his life, and Tintern Abbey,

Biography
William Wordsworth belongs to the period that witnessed a Romantic revolt against the
Neo-classical movement. Wordsworth himself was highly influenced by the spirit of the
French Revolution and the writing of Rousseau who challenged everything that
interfered with the natural right and liberty of man.
William Wordsworth was an English romantic poet who was born at April 7th of 1770.
Raised with four siblings and lived in a large mansion in the small town because of the
work and connections of his father. William was also allowed to use his father's library,
so he used to spend his time reading works by Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser.

It was at the school in Penrith that he met the Hutchinsons, including Mary, who later
became his wife.
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The

European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge.
In 1790, he went on a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured
the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
In November 1791, Wordsworth visited Revolutionary
France and became enchanted with the Republican
movement. He fell in love with a French woman,
Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their
daughter Caroline. Financial problems and Britain's
tense relations with France forced him to return to
England alone the following year. He supported her
and his daughter as best he could. The Reign of Terror prevented him from seeing
Annette and his daughter for some years.
In 1802, Wordsworth married his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson, and the following
year Mary gave birth to the first of five children: John, Dora, Thomas, Catherine and
William.
The sudden death of his daughter Dora in 1847 at the age of only 42 was difficult for
the aging poet to take and in his depression; he completely gave up writing new
material.
William Wordsworth died at home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated case
of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, and was buried at St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. His

widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical "poem to Coleridge" as The

Prelude several months after his death. Though it failed to arouse much interest at that
time, it has since come to be widely recognised as his masterpiece.
Wordsworth recommended the use of
a simpler diction. He says that his
principal object in these poems is to
choose incidents and situations from
common life and to relate or describe
them, throughout as far as possible in a
selection of language really used by
men and at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination in
order to present even, ordinary things in an unusual aspect. He rejected the
personification of abstract ideas. He also ruled out any distinction between the language
of poetry and that of prose. But later, he contra dicted himself stating that the
selection of the language spoken by men must be made with true taste and feeling.
Wordsworth, actually ends in good neoclassicism!

Tintern Abbey (Extract)

July 13, 1798

Lines
Written at a small distance from my House, and sent by
my little boy to the person to whom they are addressed.
It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before,
The red-breast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
My Sister! ('tis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.
Edward will come with you, and pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress,
And bring no book, for this one day
We'l give to idleness.

No joyless forms shall regulate

Our living Calendar:
We from to-day, my friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now an universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth,
It is the hour of feeling.
One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason;
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.
Some silent laws our hearts may make,
Which they shall long obey;
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.
And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above;
We'l frame the measure of our souls,
They shall be tuned to love.
Then come, my sister I come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress,

And bring no book; for this one day

We'l give to idleness.
The subject of Tintern Abbey is specifically, childhood memories of communion with
natural beauty. Both generally and specifically, this subject is hugely important in
Wordsworths work. Tintern Abbey is the young Wordsworths first great statement
of his principal theme: that the memory of pure communion with nature in childhood
works upon the mind even in adulthood, when access to that pure communion has been
lost, and that the maturity of mind present in adulthood offers compensation for the
loss of that communion, specifically, the ability to look on nature and hear human
music; that is, to see nature with an eye toward its relationship to human life. In his
youth, the poet says, he was thoughtless in his unity with the woods and the river; now,
five years since his last point of view, he is no longer thoughtless, but acutely aware of
everything the scene has to offer him. Additionally, the presence of his sister gives him
a view of himself as he imagines himself to have been as a youth. Happily, he knows
that this current experience will provide both of them with future memories, just as his
past experience has provided him with the memories that flicker across his present
sight as he travels in the woods

Conclusions
After doing this interesting work we can say that we learned about William
Wordsworth and his life, how does the death of his daughter could literally make him fall
in a deep depression and force him to stop making such beautiful poems. Nowadays, a
lot of new poets get inspired with the amazing work that William Wordsworth left us.
Finally, we want to emphasize the teaching of his poems that is the devotion to nature.

In each one of his poems, he cannot stop to

include the wonderful nature, from de most simple,
to the most complex.
The language of his poems is striking for its
simplicity and forthrightness; the young poet is in
no way concerned with ostentation. He is instead
concerned with speaking from the heart in a
plainspoken manner. The poems imagery is largely confined to the natural world in
which he moves.
Early readers of Wordsworth were confused by Wordsworth's poetry. They objected to
his thoughts about language, metrical arrangement, his poetics and his seemingly low
subject matter. Despite his having written a large amount of prose discussing his new
style of poetry, readers often found this prose yet more infuriating and perplexing (a
mood which perhaps Wordsworth registered by writing more and more prose in the
early nineteenth century).
To Wordsworth, the poet is a man speaking to men. So poetry should have a definite
purpose apart from delighting the reader. Poetry is the pursuit of truth of mans
knowledge of himself and the
world around him. Scientific
truth benefits us materially
whereas the poetic truth
becomes

part

of

our

existence. The poetic truths

are felt in the blood and felt

along the heart. So Wordsworth says, Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all
knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.
Poetry, according to Wordsworth is a great force for good. Wordsworth wished to be
considered only as a teacher. To him, every great poet is a teacher. Like Plato, he also
wanted poetry to teach. But at the same time he insisted on pleasure as being an
essential condition of poetic teaching. Man, by nature, is a bundle of contradictions.