William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
LIFE
Wordsworth was born in a samll village in the Lake district where he spent his childhood near the nature. At the age of eight he lost his mother and the the age of thirteen his father, and he remained with his three brtothers, above all with his sister Dorothy that was his best friend for all the life.
He was educated first at Grammar school at Hawkshead, in lake dstrict, and then he took his degree in St. John's college at Cambridge, in 1791.
In the same year, after spending some months in London, he went to France, where he was attracted by new democratic ideas and was a supporters of French Revolution, and where he had love affairs with Annette Vallon that gave him a daughters.
Maybe he tought to marry her, but ostracism of her family, and because he was lack of money, he had to return in England; so there was the war between England and France, so he was impossible to return in France.
In 1795 he met Coleridge, with whome he developed a long and very productive friendship and that had the same passion for the nautre; they made a lot of walk talking on poetry, and in one of these they planned the Lyrical Ballads.
He made a travel in Germany and when he returned he married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood schoolfriend, and moved to Lake District. In the last time of his life he gradually turned to the politc of conservatism, and he was appointed Poet Laureate in 1843. He died in 1850.
WORKS
Wordsworth began to write when he was still a schoolboy, and his best period was between 1797 and 1807. He wrote:
• The Prelude: an autobiographical poem in fourteen books.
• The Excursion: that was a part of a big composition of books in which Wordsworth could have spoken about nature, man and human life.
He wrote so a lot of odes and sonnets: conversational, lyrical, pastoral, elegiac, reflective and narrative poem.
Lyrical Ballads: Some of the miscellanous poems were included in the Lyrical Ballads, a collection planned with Coleridge; he was printed in 1798, and in the second edition there is a preface by Wordsworth that is considered the Manifesto of English Romantic Movement.
REALISM AND POETRY
The lyrical Ballads resulte the work of Coleridge, that talk about supernatural, and Wordsworth that talk about the things of every day. In fact Wordsworth in his poetry tried to reconcile realism and poetry, drwing the things of everyday life and using a language as near as possible to actual spoken of England.