paper 103.Wordsworth and his works

English Literature

1. Paper-3 Romantic literature Topic – Wordsworth life and works

2. Williams Wordsworth He was born April 7 1770 Cockermouth Cumberland England Coleridge helped launch the English romantic movement in English literature Wordsworth mother died when he was an 7 and he was an orphan at 13 he did well at Hawkshead Grammar school . He went on to study at Cambridge University.

3. Early life and Education Wordsworth was born in the Lake district of northern England the second of five children of a modesty prosperous estate manager. At Hawkshead Wordsworth received an excellent education in classics literature and mathematics but the chief advantage to him there was the chance to indulge in the boyhood pleasure of living and playing in the outdoors.

4. His Notable Works Line composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey Lyrical Ballads Michael Peter Bell
The Excursion The Prulude The Recluse The solitary Reaper
The world is Too much with us

5. His Literary Works My Heart Leaps up To the Cuckoo The Sparrows Nest The Affliction of Margaret Character of the happy warrior

6. His famous Poem – Tintern Abbey This poems was published in 1798. It is a conversational Poem that contains elements of an ode and dramatic monologue. The poem is based on a small place situated in the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire on the Welsh bank of the River Wye.

7. Wordsworths works Theme Nature”come forth into the light of your Teacher”No discussion on Wordsworth would be complete without mention of nature. Memory Mortality Humanity Morality Religion Transcendence and Connectivity

8. Evolving Poetry and Philosophy As he grew older Wordsworth began to reject radicalism. In 1813 he was named as a distributor of stamps and moved his family to a new home in the Lake District By 1818 Wordsworth was an ardent supporter of the Conservative Tories .

9. His Death In 1843 Wordsworth became England’s poet laureate a position he held for the rest of his life . At the age of 80 he died on April 23 1850 at his home in Rydal Mount Westmoreland England . His widow Mary Published his lengthy autobiographical poem To Coleridge as The Prelude several months after his death.

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