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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) - Coggle Diagram
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
(1770-1850)
THEMES
Childhood and the memory of childhood in adult life
Poetry
Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
Poet
Visionary figure
He uses sensitivity and imagination
He "recollects" emotions in tranquillity and he reproduces them through poetry
Nature
Uncontrollable force that dominates man's life
Common events, country people and natural scenes
Importance of feelings
MAIN WORKS
The Preface is considered the manifesto of English Romantic Poetry
Lyrical Ballads
(1798)
collection of poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge
Poems
(1807)
Collection of poems containing famous works sush as
I Wandered Lonely
This poem is the reconstruction of a walk the poet had in
1802
Prelude
(1808)
Autobiographical work in
13 books
It describes the development of his ideas and of his poetry
The Excursion
(1814)
Work of philosophical reflection on man nature and society
LIFE
He was born in
Cumbria
in the
Lake District
He visited France in
1790
He supported the republican ideas
He graduated from
Cambridge University
in
1791
In
1795
he met
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They worked together on the
"Lyrical Ballads"
In
1843
he became England's Poet Laurate
He died at the age of 80 on
23 April 1850
STYLE
Use of the natural language of common speech
Rejection of the refined forms of 18th-century poetry
Plain and easy to understand