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William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Born April 7, 1770 in the "Lake Country" of northern England, the great English poet William Wordsworth, son of a prominent aristocrat, was orphaned at an early age. He attended boarding school in Hawkesmead and, after an undistinguished career at Cambridge, he spent visa mer a year in revolutionary France, before returning to England a penniless radical. Wordsworth later received honorary degrees from the University of Durham and Oxford University. He is best known for his work "The Prelude", which was published after his death. For five years, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived very frugally in rural England, where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Lyrical Ballads", published anonymously in 1798, led off with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" and ended with Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey". Between these two masterworks are at least a dozen other great poems. "Lyrical Ballads" is often said to mark the beginning of the English romantic revolution. A second, augmented edition in 1800 was prefaced by one of the great manifestos in world literature, an essay that called for natural language in poetry, subject matter dealing with ordinary men and women, a return to emotions and imagination, and a conception of poetry as pleasure and prophecy. Together with Robert Southey, these three were known as the "Lake Poets", the elite of English poetry. Before he was 30, Wordsworth had begun the supreme work of his life, The Prelude, an immensely long autobiographical work on "The Growth of the Poet's Mind," a theme unprecedented in poetry. Although first finished in 1805, The Prelude was never published in Wordsworth's lifetime. Between 1797 and 1807, he produced a steady stream of magnificent works, but little of his work over the last four decades of his life matters greatly. "The Excursion", a poem of epic length, was considered by Hazlitt and Keats to be among the wonders of the age. After "Lyrical Ballads", Wordsworth turned to his own life, his spiritual and poetical development, as his major theme. More than anyone else, he dealt with mysterious affinities between nature and humanity. Poems like the "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" have a mystical power quite independent of any particular creed, and simple lyrics like "The Solitary Reaper" produced amazingly powerful effects with the simplest materials. Wordsworth also revived the sonnet and is one of the greatest masters of that form. Wordsworth is one of the giants of English poetry and criticism, his work ranging from the almost childishly simple to the philosophically profound. Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson in 1802 and in 1813, obtained a sinecure as distributor of stamps for Westmoreland. At this stage of his life, Wordsworth's political beliefs had strayed from liberal to staunchly conservative. His last works were published around 1835, a few trickled in as the years went on, but the bulk of his writing had slowed. In 1842 he was awarded a government pension and in 1843 became the Poet Laureate of England, after the post was vacated by his friend Coleridge. Wordsworth wrote over 523 sonnets in the course of his lifetime. Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850. He is buried in Grasme Curchyard. He was 80 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Lyrical Ballads (1798) 1,117 exemplar
Favorite Poems (1992) 516 exemplar
The Prelude (1850) 338 exemplar
The Prelude: A Parallel Text (1971) 248 exemplar
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Selected Poems (1850) 202 exemplar
The Essential Wordsworth (1988) 109 exemplar
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Selections from Wordsworth (1920) 27 exemplar
Wordsworth: A Life in Letters (2002) 26 exemplar
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Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1 (2004) 25 exemplar
Poems of William Wordsworth (1902) 24 exemplar
The Poetical Works of Wordsworth (1908) — Författare — 23 exemplar
A Choice of Wordsworth's Verse (1971) 21 exemplar
The Excursion (1991) 19 exemplar
Selected Poems 17 exemplar
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Le prélude et autres poèmes (2001) 15 exemplar
Poems 14 exemplar
Selected Poetry (1950) 12 exemplar
Works (III) 11 exemplar
A Pocket Poet Wordsworth (1996) 11 exemplar
The White Doe Of Rylstone (1988) 11 exemplar
Poems (1970) 9 exemplar
A Wordsworth anthology (1946) 9 exemplar
Selected poems 9 exemplar
Peter Bell (1985) 9 exemplar
A Wordsworth Treasury (1978) 8 exemplar
The Five-Book Prelude (1997) 8 exemplar
The borderers (1982) 7 exemplar
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude (1964) — Författare — 7 exemplar
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Wordsworth in Scotland (1987) 6 exemplar
Selected poems 6 exemplar
Wordsworth's Poems (1900) 6 exemplar
Works (I) 5 exemplar
Poems (1959) 5 exemplar
Poems By William Wordsworth (1970) 5 exemplar
The thirteen-book Prelude (1992) 4 exemplar
Poems, Lyrics & Sonnets (1945) 4 exemplar
The Lake Poets (1983) 4 exemplar
Benjamin the waggoner (1981) 4 exemplar
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Poems, Lyrics and Sonnets (1948) 3 exemplar
Poesie 1798-1807 (1997) 3 exemplar
LXXV sonnets 3 exemplar
London, 1802 3 exemplar
Selected Poems 3 exemplar
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Representative poems (1937) 3 exemplar
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The River Duddon (2017) 2 exemplar
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The Recluse (2009) 2 exemplar
William Wordsworth 2 exemplar
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The Prelude 1850 (2014) 2 exemplar
The Lucy Poems (2010) 2 exemplar
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Selected Critical Essays (1999) 2 exemplar
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O PRELÚDIO 2 exemplar
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Trailing Clouds of Glory (1996) 1 exemplar
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The Art Gallery 1 exemplar
The Tables Turned 1 exemplar
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Wordsworth's Poetry (2014) 1 exemplar
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Ingen titel 1 exemplar
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Wordsworth 1 exemplar
Wordsworth; Poetry and Prose (1960) 1 exemplar
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Wordsworth Poetry 1 exemplar
Poetry & prose (1969) 1 exemplar
The Poems Vol 1-2 1 exemplar
Five Lucy Poems 1 exemplar
Sonnets 1 exemplar
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Wordsworth. Poetry & Prose (1967) 1 exemplar
The Poetry Of Cats (2014) 1 exemplar
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Poems (Mini-poets) (1975) 1 exemplar
England's Favourite Poems (2004) 1 exemplar
Poemas 1 exemplar
Wordsworth's pocket notebook (1972) 1 exemplar

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A message from Wordsworth to today's idiots: "The human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants....". That was my first impression of Wordsworth's perspicacity. The second was his apparent sadness about the human condition, the third was his belief in and love of nature, and fourth was his gift for storytelling. I now appreciate him much more than I did fresh out of school. His "Lines Written in Early Spring" finishes with these three lines:
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
I guess human history never really changes. At the end of this collection, Mr. Somervell has included his take on the "Principles of Poetry and 'Lyrical Ballads' ", a very worthwhile inclusion. If, for some reason I have to divest myself of much of my collection of The Kings Treasuries of Literature, I will want to save this one: Number 40.
… (mer)
 
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gmillar | Nov 28, 2023 |
This comment is on the 1850 version of The Prelude, not others or Norton's criticism/apparatus. Perhaps a slog to some contemporary readers, but brilliant, beautiful and often sublime and deeply insightful. That’s not to say it's completely without contradiction or that it presents a coherent system of thought (or is consistently brilliant and beautiful). But it’s rich in food for thought, sometimes viewed from very unusual perspectives, and in an uncannily earthy yet simultaneously other-worldly way. And the language is, to me at least, some of the most engaging in English.… (mer)
 
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garbagedump | Dec 9, 2022 |
Little bit agree with him. since he want to revert like highlighted issue. this is not like that.
 
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Azmir_Fakir | Oct 31, 2022 |
This is one of the foundational volumes of poetry in the English language. So it's subversive and dangerous. Read at your own risk!
 
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