Together, they wrote and assembled Lyrical Ballads, their major contribution to the Romantic movement. In 1795, Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), and the two became extremely good friends. He would return a decade later, during a brief period of peace between France and Britain, and make provision for the child, a daughter. Fascinated by the French Revolution, he made two trips to France in 17, where he had a love affair and fathered an out-of-wedlock child. But they seemed to have received more than a decent education Wordsworth himself ended up at St. Wordsworth (1770-1850) and his four siblings were orphaned at an early age, and spent a considerable amount of their childhood years living with various (and different) relatives. And I learned how he kept revising already published poems, including those of his Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1802) and his autobiographical The Prelude (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850). I learned about the critical importance of his sister, Dorothy, and why she is responsible for us knowing so much about how he wrote his poems. I learned how the poet who was all about revolution ultimately became Britain’s poet laureate and a pillar of the literary establishment. This time, I worried less about snippets of lines and more about the poet and his poems. Studying the poetry of John Keats both before and after I participated in a Keats Walk in London led me back to Wordsworth. Perhaps it was that experience of studying him too closely that led me away (far away) from Wordsworth until just the past year. When all else failed, I always guessed Wordsworth as the author his poetry had been her particular passion.
Our tests and exams were often snippets of lines of poems, and we had to identify which poet had written them. Perhaps too seriously-our English lit professor for the period covering the Romantics through the Moderns had received her Ph.D.
His great autobiographical poem, 'The Prelude', which he had worked on since 1798, was published after his death.I had studied some of the poems of William Wordsworth poems in high school, but it wasn’t until my English literature courses in college that I studied him seriously. Wordsworth died on 23 April 1850 and was buried in Grasmere churchyard. In 1842, he was given a government pension and the following year became poet laureate. He continued to write poetry, but it was never as great as his early works. In 1813, Wordsworth moved from Grasmere to nearby Ambelside. His political views underwent a transformation around the turn of the century, and he became increasingly conservative, disillusioned by events in France culminating in Napoleon Bonaparte taking power. Two of his children died, his brother was drowned at sea and Dorothy suffered a mental breakdown. The next few years were personally difficult for Wordsworth. In 1802, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson. Wordsworth's most famous poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' was written at Dove Cottage in 1804. In 1799, after a visit to Germany with Coleridge, Wordsworth and Dorothy settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District. The poems were greeted with hostility by most critics. This collection of poems, mostly by Wordsworth but with Coleridge contributing 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', is generally taken to mark the beginning of the Romantic movement in English poetry. They collaborated on 'Lyrical Ballads', published in 1798. Two years later they moved again, this time to Somerset, to live near the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was an admirer of Wordsworth's work. In 1795, Wordsworth received a legacy from a close relative and he and his sister Dorothy went to live in Dorset. He began to write poetry while he was at school, but none was published until 1793. He became an enthusiast for the ideals of the French Revolution. While studying at Cambridge University, Wordsworth spent a summer holiday on a walking tour in Switzerland and France. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his poems. Both Wordsworth's parents died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different relatives. William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in Cumbria. © Wordsworth was one of the most influential of England's Romantic poets.