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siblings, had little involvement with their father, and they would be distant with him until his death in 1783.[3]

Wordsworth's father, although rarely present, did teach him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare and

Spenser, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his own father's library. Along with spending time reading in

Cockermouth, Wordsworth would also stay at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland. At Penrith,

Wordsworth was exposed to the moors. Wordsworth could not get along with his grandparents and his uncle, and his

hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide.

[4]

After the death of their mother, in 1778, John Wordsworth sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School in

Lancashire and Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire; she and William would not meet again for another nine

years. Although Hawkshead was Wordsworth's first serious experience with education, he had been taught to read by

his mother and had attended a tiny school of low quality in Cockermouth. After the Cockermouth school, he was sent

to a school in Penrith for the children of upper-class families and taught by Ann Birkett, a woman who insisted on

instilling in her students traditions that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals

around Easter, May Day, and Shrove Tuesday. Wordsworth was taught both the Bible and the Spectator, but little

else. It was at the school that Wordsworth was to meet the Hutchinsons, including Mary, who would be his future

wife.[5]

Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same

year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge, and received his B.A. degree in 1791.[6]

He returned to

Hawkshead for his first two summer holidays, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous

for the beauty of their landscape. In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps

extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.

Relationship with Annette Vallon

In November 1791, Wordsworth visited Revolutionary France and became enthralled with the Republican

movement. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline.

Because of lack of money and Britain's tensions with France, he returned alone to England the next year.[7]

Thecircumstances of his return and his subsequent behaviour raise doubts as to his declared wish to marry Annette, but

he supported her and his daughter as best he could in later life. In 1802, he visited Calais with his sister Dorothy and

met Annette and his daughter Caroline. The purpose of the visit was to pave the way for his forthcoming marriage to

Mary Hutchinson. Afterwards he wrote the poem "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," recalling his seaside

walk with his daughter, whom he had not seen for ten years. At the conception of this poem, he had never seen his

daughter before. The occurring lines reveal his deep love for both child and mother. The Reign of Terror estranged

him from the Republican movement, and war between France and Britain prevented him from seeing Annette and

Caroline again for several years. There are strong suggestions that Wordsworth may have been depressed and

emotionally unsettled in the mid-1790s.

With the Peace of Amiens again allowing travel to France, in 1802 Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, visited

Annette and Caroline in France and arrived at a mutually agreeable settlement regarding Wordsworth's obligations.[7]
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First publication and Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began

The Prelude.[8]

In his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads", which is called the "manifesto" of

English Romantic criticism, Wordsworth calls his poems

"experimental." The year 1793 saw Wordsworth's first published

poetry with the collectionsAn Evening WalkandDescriptive Sketches.

He received a legacy of 900 from Raisley Calvert in 1795 so that he

could pursue writing poetry. That year, he met Samuel Taylor

Coleridge in Somerset. The two poets quickly developed a close

friendship. In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to

Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's

home in Nether Stowey. Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge (with

insights from Dorothy) produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important

work in the English Romantic movement. The volume gave neither

Wordsworth's nor Coleridge's name as author. One of Wordsworth's

most famous poems, "Tintern Abbey", was published in the work,

along with Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". The second

edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author,

and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition. This Preface to Lyrical

Ballads is considered a central work of Romantic literary theory. In it, Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the

elements of a new type of poetry, one based on the "real language of men" and which avoids the poetic diction of

much eighteenth-century poetry. Here, Wordsworth gives his famous definition of poetry as "the spontaneous

overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." A fourth and final edition

ofLyrical Ballads was published in 1805.

Germany and move to the Lake District

Wordsworth, Dorothy and Coleridge traveled to Germany in the autumn of 1798. While Coleridge was intellectually

stimulated by the trip, its main effect on Wordsworth was to produce homesickness.[7]

During the harsh winter of

179899, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an

autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude. He wrote a number of famous poems, including "The Lucy poems".

He and his sister moved back to England, now to Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District, and this time with

fellow poet Robert Southey nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets".[9]

Through this period, many of his poems revolve around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief.
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Portrait, 1842, by Benjamin Haydon

Marriage and Children

In 1802, after Wordsworth's return from his trip to France with

Dorothy to visit Annette and Caroline, Lowther's heir, William

Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, paid the 4,000 debt owed to

Wordsworth's father incurred through Lowther's failure to pay his

aide.[10]

Later that year, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Mary

Hutchinson.[7]

Dorothy continued to live with the couple and grew

close to Mary. The following year, Mary gave birth to the first of five

children, three of whom predeceased William and Mary:

John Wordsworth (18 June 18031875). Married four times:

1. Isabella Curwen (d. 1848) had six children: Jane, Henry, William,

John, Charles and Edward.

2. Helen Ross (d. 1854). No issue.

3. Mary Ann Dolan (d. after 1858) had one daughter Dora (b.1858).

4. Mary Gamble. No issue.

Dora Wordsworth (16 August 18049 July 1847). Married Edward Quillinan

Thomas Wordsworth (15 June 18061 December 1812).

Catherine Wordsworth (6 September 18084 June 1812).

William "Willy" Wordsworth (12 May 18101883). Married Fanny Graham and had four children: Mary Louisa,

William, Reginald, Gordon.

Autobiographical work and Poems in Two Volumes

Wordsworth had for years been making plans to write a long philosophical poem in three parts, which he intended tocall The Recluse. He had in 179899 started an autobiographical poem, which he never named but called the "poem

to Coleridge", which would serve as an appendix to The Recluse. In 1804, he began expanding this autobiographical

work, having decided to make it a prologue rather than an appendix to the larger work he planned. By 1805, he had

completed it, but refused to publish such a personal work until he had completed the whole of The Recluse. The

death of his brother, John, in 1805 affected him strongly.

The source ofWordsworth's philosophical allegiances as articulated in The Prelude and in such shorter works as

"Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" has been the source of much critical debate. While it had long

been supposed that Wordsworth relied chiefly on Coleridge for philosophical guidance, more recent scholarship has

suggested that Wordsworth's ideas may have been formed years before he and Coleridge became friends in the mid

1790s. While in Revolutionary Paris in 1792, the twenty-two year old Wordsworth made the acquaintance of the

mysterious traveller John "Walking" Stewart (17471822),[11]

who was nearing the end of a thirty-years'

peregrination from Madras, India, through Persia and Arabia, across Africa and all of Europe, and up through the

fledgling United States. By the time of their association, Stewart had published an ambitious work of original

materialist philosophy entitled The Apocalypse of Nature (London, 1791), to which many of Wordsworth's

philosophical sentiments are likely indebted.

In 1807, hisPoems in Two Volumes were published, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections

of Early Childhood". Up to this point Wordsworth was known publicly only for Lyrical Ballads, and he hoped this

collection would cement his reputation. Its reception was lukewarm, however. For a time (starting in 1810),

Wordsworth and Coleridge were estranged over the latter's opium addiction.[7]

Two of his children, Thomas and

Catherine, died in 1812. The following year, he received an appointment as Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland,

and the 400 per year income from the post made him financially secure. His family, including Dorothy, moved to
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Rydal Mount, Ambleside (between Grasmere and Rydal Water) in 1813, where he spent the rest of his life.[7]

The Prospectus

In 1814 he published The Excursion as the second part of the three-part The Recluse. He had not completed the first

and third parts, and never would. He did, however, write a poetic Prospectus to "The Recluse" in which he lays out

the structure and intent of the poem. The Prospectus contains some of Wordsworth's most famous lines on the

relation between the human mind and nature:

My voice proclaims

How exquisitely the individual Mind

(And the progressive powers perhaps no less

Of the whole species) to the external World

Is fitted:--and how exquisitely, too,

Theme this but little heard of among Men,

The external World is fitted to the Mind.

Some modern critics recognize a decline in his works beginning around the mid-1810s. But this decline was perhaps

more a change in his lifestyle and beliefs, since most of the issues that characterize his early poetry (loss, death,

endurance, separation and abandonment) were resolved in his writings. But, by 1820, he enjoyed the success

accompanying a reversal in the contemporary critical opinion of his earlier works. Following the death of his friend

the painter William Green in 1823, Wordsworth mended relations with Coleridge.[12]

The two were fully reconciled

by 1828, when they toured the Rhineland together.[7]

Dorothy suffered from a severe illness in 1829 that rendered

her an invalid for the remainder of her life. In 1835, Wordsworth gave Annette and Caroline the money they needed

for support.

The Poet Laureate and other honorsWordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham University, and the same honor

from Oxford University the next year.[7]

In 1842 the government awarded him a civil list pension amounting to 300

a year. With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. He initially refused the

honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him "you shall have nothing

required of you" (he became the only laureate to write no official poetry). When his daughter, Dora, died in 1847, his

production of poetry came to a standstill.
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Death

Gravestone of William Wordsworth, Grasmere,

Cumbria

William Wordsworth died by re-aggravating a case of pleurisy on 23

April 1850, and was buried at St. Oswald's church in Grasmere. His

widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical "poem to

Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death. Though this

failed to arouse great interest in 1850, it has since come to be

recognized as his masterpiece.

Major works

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)

"Simon Lee"

"We are Seven"

"Lines Written in Early Spring"

"Expostulation and Reply"

"The Tables Turned"

"The Thorn"

"Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"

Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800)

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

"Strange fits of passion have I known"[13]

"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"[13]

"Three years she grew"[13]

"A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"[13]

"I travelled among unknown men"[13]

"Lucy Gray"

"The Two April Mornings"

"Nutting"

"The Ruined Cottage"

"Michael"

"The Kitten At Play"

Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)

"Resolution and Independence"

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Also known as "Daffodils"

"My Heart Leaps Up"

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"

"Ode to Duty"

"The Solitary Reaper"

"Elegiac Stanzas"

"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"

"London, 1802"

"The World Is Too Much with Us"

The Excursion (1814)

The Prelude (1850) Guide to the Lakes (1810)
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Upon Westminster bridge

Further reading

Hunter Davies, William Wordsworth-A Biography, Frances Lincoln Ltd,London,2009 ISBN 978-0-7112-3045-3

Emma Mason, The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth (Cambridge University Press, 2010) [14]

M.R. Tewari, One Interior LifeA Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic Experience, (New Delhi: S.

Chand & Company Ltd, 1983)

Report to Wordsworth Written by Boey Kim Cheng, as a direct reference to his poems Composed Upon

Westminster Bridge and The World is too Much with us

External links

General information and biographical sketches

Biography and Works[15]

Works by or about William Wordsworth[16]

in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Romanticon: Wordsworth's Corpus Reflects the Growth of a Conservative's Mind[17]

; City Journal, Summer2009

Short biographical sketch by Glenn Everett[18]

Wordsworth's hidden arguments[19]

: an article in the TLS[20]

by Dan Jacobson, 31 October 2007

Worsworth's links with Claines, Worcester[21]

Wordsworth and the Lake District[22]

Wordsworth's Grave[23]

Wordsworth and the Lake District[24]

The Wordsworth Trust[25]

Romantic Circles: Editions & articles on Wordsworth and other authors of the Romantic period[26]

Hawkshead Grammar School Museum [27]

Books

Anonymous; Wordsworth at Cambridge. A Record of the Commemoration Held at St Johns College, Cambridge

in April 1950; Cambridge University Press, 1950 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN

978-1-108-00289-9)

Mallaby, George, Wordsworth: a Tribute (1950)

Wordsworth's works

Works by William Wordsworth[28]

at Bartleby.com (HTML)


at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)


at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML) Poems by William Wordsworth

[31]

Selected Poems by W.Wordsworth[32]

Selected Works at Poetry Index[33]

Biography and Works[15]

Poetry Archive: 166 poems of William Wordsworth[34]

To Toussaint Louverturepoem by William Wordsworth[35]

Extensive Information on Wordsworth's Poem,Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey[36]

Britain Unlimited's page on William Wordsworth[37]
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[3] Moorman 1968 pp. 57.

[4] Moorman 1968:913.[5] Moorman 1968:1518.

[6] Wordsworth, William (http://venn. lib. cam. ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?sur=&suro=c& fir=&firo=c& cit=&cito=c&c=all&

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[9] See:Recollections of the Lake Poets.

[10] Moorman 1968 p. 8

[11] Kelly Grovier, "Dream Walker: A Wordsworth Mystery Solved", Times Literary Supplement, 16 February 2007

[12] Gentlemans Magazine|Sylvanus Urban- 1823

[13] M. H. Abrams, editor ofThe Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period, writes of these five poems: "This and the four

following pieces are often grouped by editors as the 'Lucy poems,' even though 'A slumber did my spirit seal' does not identify the 'she' who is

the subject of that poem. All but the last were written in 1799, while Wordsworth and his sister were in Germany, and homesick. There has

been diligent speculation about the identity of Lucy, but it remains speculation. The one certainty is that she is not the girl of Wordsworth's

'Lucy Gray'" (Abrams 2000).

[14] http://www.cup.cam. ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue. asp?isbn=9780521721479

[15] http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth

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[17] http://www.city-journal. org/2009/19_3_wordsworth. html

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[19] http://entertainment. timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article2779499. ece

[20] http://www.the-tls.co. uk

[21] http://www.clainesfriends.org. uk/wordsworth.html

[22] http://www.english-lakes.com/william_wordsworth.html

[23] http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/wordsworth.htm

[24] http://www.visitcumbria.com/wilword.htm

[25] http://www.wordsworth.org. uk

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