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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in England's Lake District. He had a strong love of nature stemming from his childhood in the Lake District. He attended Cambridge University and traveled through Europe, spending significant time in France where he was exposed to the ideals of the French Revolution. Upon returning to England, he turned from politics to expressing his political views through literature. He worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to publish Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and is renowned for his long autobiographical work The Prelude. Wordsworth was a founder of the Romantic movement in reaction to Enlightenment ideas, emphasizing feelings, imagination, and intuition over reason in his poetry.

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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in England's Lake District. He had a strong love of nature stemming from his childhood in the Lake District. He attended Cambridge University and traveled through Europe, spending significant time in France where he was exposed to the ideals of the French Revolution. Upon returning to England, he turned from politics to expressing his political views through literature. He worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to publish Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and is renowned for his long autobiographical work The Prelude. Wordsworth was a founder of the Romantic movement in reaction to Enlightenment ideas, emphasizing feelings, imagination, and intuition over reason in his poetry.

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    William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet born in England's Lake District. He had a strong love of nature stemming from his childhood in the Lake District. He attended Cambridge University and traveled through Europe, spending significant time in France where he was exposed to the ideals of the French Revolution. Upon returning to England, he turned from politics to expressing his political views through literature. He worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to publish Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and is renowned for his long autobiographical work The Prelude. Wordsworth was a founder of the Romantic movement in reaction to Enlightenment ideas, emphasizing feelings, imagination, and intuition over reason in his poetry.

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    The World is Too Much With Us and

    London 1802- Influential Writers and


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    About William Wordsworth
    Born in the Lake District of England.
    Wordsworth has a huge love for nature.
    Parents died when he was 13.
    Entered Cambridge University in 1787.
    He traveled through Europe after graduating.
    He spent a lot of time in France.
    It was in France he observed the ideals of the
    French Revolution.
    Woodworth returned to England due to lack
    of funds.
    Two months later England declared War on
    France in 1793
    Woodworth turned from politics to express his
    views in his literature.
    He became the father of Romanticism.
    He worked together with Coleridge and
    together they released Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
    He is well known for his autobiographical work
    The Prelude which was previous named
    poem for Coleridge.
    In 1798-1799 he worked on The Recluse, a
    long philosophical poem.
    The death of his brother in 1805 affected him
    strongly.
    The number of works declined after 1810,
    because by then his lifestyle and view of life
    had changed.
    Many of the problems which he described in his
    early works were for the most part resolved.
    John Milton
    A 17
    th
    century English poet.
    He wrote during times of religious flux and
    political upheaval in England.
    He wrote many of his major works of poetry
    during the Restoration period in 1660.
    He protested the Commonwealth.
    Romanticism
    "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of
    subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
    Charles Baudelaire
    Romanticism began as a reaction towards the
    prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the time.
    It was first started by Wordsworth and Coleridge
    Wordsworth would use his poetry to express his feelings
    and thoughts about society.
    For example, in London 1802, Wordsworth calls the English
    people stagnant and selfish. He also states that English
    Poet Milton was alive, things would be much better.
    His hate of Industrialization.
    While the Enlightenment encouraged deductive reasoning,
    Romanticism emphasized intuition, imagination, and
    feeling.
    I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
    William Blake
    Early British Romantics were inspired by the French
    Revolution.
    Romantic poetry was also inspired by events that preceded
    the French Revolution such as the Seven Years War, the
    French and Indian War, and the American Revolution.
    Romantic poetry usually contains a love of nature, a sense
    of nationalism, and a sense of the supernatural.
    Other Romantic poetry writers
    William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient
    Mariner
    George Gordon, Lord Byron - Don Juan "Childe
    Harold's Pilgrimage"
    Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus
    Unbound "Adonais" "Ode to the west wind"
    "Ozymandias"
    John Keats - Great Odes "Hyperion" "Endymion"

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