William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

1. BIOGRAPHY

   • Poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.
   • Wordsworth’s mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at 13.
   • Where he wrote his first poetry and went on to study at Cambridge University.
   • He did not excel there, but managed to graduate in 1791.
   • However, the declaration of war between England and France in 1793 separated the two.

2. CONTRIBUTIONS

   • Poet William Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads (1798).
   • The collection, which contained Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," introduced Romanticism to English poetry.
   • He became England's poet laureate in 1843, a role he held until his death in 1850.

3. LITERARY WORKS

   • Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (Baladas líricas, 1798). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (Baladas líricas, 1800). Poems, in Two Volumes (Poemas, en dos volúmenes, 1807) Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803), en la que destaca The Solitary Reaper. Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont (1805) The Excursion (La excursión, 1814) The Recluse, con su Prospectus Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series (1821), en la que destacan Mutability e Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

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