Paper no.103 Biography on William Wordsworth

In this presentation I present on the topic biography on English author William Wordsworth. Here I mention some information on Wordsworth also discuss about some important works.

1. Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English Name :- Riddhi H. Rathod Presentation Topic :-Biography on William Wordsworth Paper No. :-103 Literature of The Romantics M.A. Sem. :- 1 Enrollment No. :- 4069206420220025

2. Personal details:- Born :- 7 April, 1770 Cokermouth in England. Died :- 23 April,1850 Westermorland in England Influence :-French Revolution Germany with Coleridge & Dorothy Marriage :- 1802 with Mary Poet Laureate :- 1843

3. He was known as Poet of Nature Wordsworth believes in that,“Nature is living soul”. Wordsworth motto:- Return to Nature Early life:- His discontent with his familial situation provoked Wordsworth to spend his time wandering away from his home, an action Wordsworth relates as uniting a childish imagination with both nature and mankind in The Prelude. Besides the local surroundings, Wordsworth was educated at the Hawkshead Grammar School, which had reputation for scholarship and preparation for University entrance.

4. It was under Coleridge’s support Wordsworth was encouraged to write poetry intended to rival Milton. Afterwards Wordsworth continued to write even without support of Coleridge’s company, and from October to February 1799 Wordsworth began writing the “Matthew” poems along with the “Lucky” poems and other poems.

5. Why wordsworth is a romantic poet? Wordsworth is considered as a Romantic poet. The classical poets had not much respect for nature and the common man but Wordsworth took up new subjects of poetry. His adoration of nature and common simple life were things of Romatic character. His poetry is for common people, reading it, people feel that is happening to us too, and can relate it to their own lives.

6. Lyrical ballads The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In 1795 he received a legacy from Raisley Calvert and became able to pursue a career as a poet. Together Wordsworth and Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work in the English Romantic movement.

7. Most famous poems, “Tintern Abbey”, published in this collection, along with Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and includwd a preface to the poems. It was augmented significantly in the next edition, published in 1802.

8. The Prelude :- In 1804 he began expanding this autobiographical work, having decide to make it a prologue rather than an appendix. He completed this work, now generally referred to as the first version of The Prelude, in 1805. The death of his brother John, also in 1805, affected him strongly and may have influenced his decisions about these works. In 1807 Wordsworth published Poems, in Two Volumes, including “Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollection of Early Chidhood”.

9. Famous works:- Between 1795-97, Wordsworth wrote is only play, The Borders, a verse tragedy set during the reign of King Henry 3 of England, when Englishmen in the North Country came into conflict with Scottish rovers. The Recluse : Long philosophical poem

10. Works cited :- Ken Junior Lipenga. (2022)  Imagining the Malawian urban space in Lawrence Kadzitche’s  Katakwe Kutauni .  South African Journal of African Languages  42:2, pages 165-171. Gill, Stephen. The Wordsworth Circle , vol. 20, no. 4, 1989, pp. 171–73. JSTOR , http://www.jstor.org/stable/24042528. Accessed 17 Oct. 2022. Roe, Nicholas Hugh, 'The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770–1800', in Richard Gravil, and Daniel Robinson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth (2015; online edn, Oxford Academic, 12 Nov. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662128.013.0004 , accessed 17 Oct. 2022.

11. Life is devided into three terms that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the presen, and from the present, To live better in the Future.. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH .