William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland, on 1770. In his holydays he toured England and later on, Europe. In 1790, he toured France, Switzerland and Italy. He stayed several years in France and he was influenced by french republicanism. In 1795, he settled with his sister Dorothy in Dorset. In 1797, Wordsworth, Dorothy and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, imagined the plan for "Lyrical Ballads".
After, they toured Germany. While Coleridge was intellectually stimulated by the trip, its main effect on Wordsworth was to produce homesickness. During the harsh winter of 1798–99, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude. In 1802, Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson, then he visited Scotland with his wife,his sister and Coleridge. In 1820, he toured Europe with his wife and his sister. Dorothy's jurnal describes very well their trip. Wordsworth aimed to became some kind of a prophet and a teacher rather than a good poet. He wasn't a poet describing nature or scenaries, but common flowers, montain views; that would make him had a state of extacy in which nature speaks to him. In 1793, descriptive scatches presented continental landscape and fascination about the cause of the French Revolution.
His most known creations, apart from The Prelude, may be said to be:
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