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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
11. Mai 2024 · William Wordsworth, English poet who was a central figure in the English Romantic revolution in poetry. He was especially known for Lyrical Ballads (1798), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Learn more about Wordsworth’s life and career, including his other notable books.
- Stephen Maxfield Parrish
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850) produced some of the greatest English poems of the late 1700s and early 1800s. In contrast to the decorum of much 18...
- William Wordsworth grew up in the Lake District of northern England. There he spent much of his boyhood playing outdoors and exploring the mountain...
- Stirred simultaneously by walks in the English countryside and by his relationships with his sister Dorothy and English poet-critic Samuel Taylor C...
WORDSWORTH studierte von 1787 bis 1791 in Cambridge. Im Jahr 1790 unternahm er zahlreiche Wanderungen auf dem europäischen Kontinent. Zwei Jahre darauf verbrachte er einige Zeit in Frankreich und wurde dort zum Anhänger der Französischen Revolution.
The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time. By William Wordsworth. —Was it for this. That one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov'd. To blend his murmurs with my Nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice.
William attended the grammar school near Cockermouth Church and Ann Birkett’s school at Penrith, the home of his maternal grandparents. The intense lifelong friendship between William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy probably began when they, along with Mary Hutchinson, attended school at Penrith. Wordsworth’s early childhood beside the ...
Summary and Analysis Book 1: Introduction — Childhood and School-Time. It is a magnificent autumn day. The poet has, by his own account, been too long pent-up in London and only now has managed to return to the beloved Lake District where he spent his childhood and adolescence.
Nach dem Tod der Mutter 1778 (sein Vater starb fünf Jahre später) wurde Wordsworth auf die Hawkshead Grammar School geschickt und er studierte anschließend von 1787 bis 1791 an der Universität Cambridge (St. John’s College).
