Zusammenfassung der Ressource
William Wordsworth
- 1770-1850
- Well-off family but
orphaned by 13
- Rendered homeless, reliant on relatives
- Lake District key part of youth
- Fed into his poetry
- Entered Cambridge at 19
- French Rev.
occurred soon after
- Heralded a new
era in society
- Formative influence
- Visited
France during
Rev.; in Paris
during
September
massacres
- Witnessed celebrations & violence
- Had an affair & child with a Frenchwoman
- Began writing political rhetoric in 1793
- Remained
unpublished
to avoid arrest
- Moved to
poetry as a
revolutionary
form
- Friends & family
- Sister Dorothy
- Constant companion, close bond
- Took notes for his poetry
- Coleridge
- Became close friends in 1795
- Lyrical Ballads
- Composed
between 1797-8
- Important
era for
Romanticism
- In Somerset
- The friends
wanted to be
close
- Withdrawal from
political action
- Depiction of the common life
- Considered
experiments
- Poetic features
- Attitudes:
- Introspection
- Contemplation
- Specific detailing
of real places
- Deeply
hidden
politics
- Nature healing
political strife
- Themes:
- Memory
- Nostalgia
- Recapturing
childhood
innocence
- Pastoral imagery
- The Two-Part Prelude
- 1799
- Begun in Germany, 1798
- Expansion on
previous text of 1798
- Proto-existentialist
- Relies on anecdotal
style & blank verse
- Product of bourgeois era & Enlightenment
- Humanist?
- Biographical
document
- Depiction of own childhood
- Key part of spiritual development
- Tradition of epic form