Biography of Wordsworth

Pandya Dhartmishtha D. Biography of Wordsworth

1. M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH NAME : Pandya Dharmishtha D. CLASS : M.A.Part-1(sen-1) ROLL NO.:28 YEAR :2015-16 PAPER NO.:3(Literary Theory &Criticism) TOPIC : Biography of Wordsworth Email ID :[email protected] Submitted by : Dr. Dilip Barad

2. Wordsworth ( 1770-1850 ) He was influence of other like experiences. 1791, Visit to France during the Revolution. 1797, friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

3. Life of Wordsworth : William Wordsworth was born on 17 April,1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland in the lake district. He died on April 23,1850. His Mother died when he was 8 year.

4. His education : He want to Cambridge University. He made his debut as a writer in 1787,when he published a sonnet in the European Magazine. Same year he entered St.John’s College, Cambridge from where he took his B.A in 1791.

5. His career : He made his debut as a writer in 1787,when he publish a sonnet in the European Magazine. Wordsworth composed his master work, Lyrical Ballads which opened with Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner.”

6. In 1798,he started to write a large and Philosophical autobiographical poem. He wrote several poems, including the enigmatic ‘Lucy’ poems. 1802, he married Mary Hutchinson.

7. Definition Poetry : Preface : In the “Advertisement” to the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge state that the poems in the collection were intended as a deliberate experiment in style and subject matter.

8. Wordsworth elaborated on this idea in the “Preface" to the 1800 and 1802 edition which outline his main ideas of a new theory of poetry.

9. Young poet : Lyrical Ballads was publish in 1793. Wordsworth was also still writing poetry, including the famous “I wandered lonely as a cloud’’ and “ode :Intimations of immorality’’ These place were published in another Wodsworth collection, poems, in ‘Tow V olumes ’(1807).