Here I am sharing my presentation of paper no- 5. It is part of my academic activity. It is submitted to department of English Dr. Dilip Barad MKBU

1. Name :- Mansi R Parmar
Roll No :- 16
Paper No :- 5 The Romantic Literature
Presentation Topic :- Wordsworth as a Nature Poet
Enrolment No :- 2069108420170024
M A English Semester – 2
Batch Year :- 2016 -18
Submitted to :- Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction
 Major English romantic
poet .
Born in 7 th April , 1770 in
England .
 Continued his studies at
Cambridge university .
 He made his debut as a
writer in 1787 , when he
published a sonnet in The
European Magazine .

3.  Same year he entered St. john’s
college , Cambridge , from where he
took his B.A in 1791 .
Wordsworth composed his master
work , Lyrical Ballads which opened
with Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner ”
 In 1798 , he started to writer a large
and philosophical autobiographical
Poem .
In 1791 he visited France . There he
fell in love with a French women
Annet Vallon . And they had a child
Caroline .

4. His father died , when
William was 13 .
Primary education his
mother taught him to
read and write .
 He died due to
pleurisy on April 23, 1850
and is buried at St
Oswald’s Church in
Grasmere .

5.  An Evening Walk (1793)
 Descriptive Sketches (1793)
 Lyrical Ballads (1798)
 Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
 The Excursion (1814)
 The Prelude (1850)
Major works

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7. Who is the poet ?
From the preface to Lyrical Ballads
“ What is a poet ? … He is a men speaking to men : a
man endued with more lively sensibility who has a
greater knowledge of human nature , and a more
comprehensive soul , then are supposed to be common
among mankind ” .

8. Nature poet
 Portrayed every aspect of nature
 Presented nature as it is , with
truthfulness
 With insight , describing hidden
 meaning in nature (not surface
description )
 Sense of spirit – life in nature
 Nature as teacher

9. Daffodils
By William Wordsworth