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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