William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth

• 1770-1850

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Walk into his Life

• Born on April 7 1770, at Cockermouth on the
  River Derwent, England
• 2nd of 5 children
• Mother died in 1778/ Father died 1783
• He got a degree from Cambridge in 1791

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Works

• Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, 1799
• She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, 1799
• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, 1799
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge 1802
• The World is too Much With Us, 1807
• The Prelude, or Growth of a Poets Mind, 1850
• The Recluse, 1888

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• The winter of 1798-99 Wordsworth spent with his
  sister and friend Coleridge in a cabin in
  Germany. There, with the encouragement of
  Coleridge, he wrote several of his works

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Family Secrets

• In 1802 Wordsworth married his childhood friend
  Mary Hutchinson. Wordsworths sister did not
  attend the ceremony instead she was found
  crying on her bed. Some writers have suggested
  that Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship
  with his sister. There may be proof of his
  feelings in the Lucy poems where Wordsworth
  attempts to kill his improper feelings for his
  sister.

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• Between 1825 to1835 many of his old friends,
  Beaumont, Scott, Coleridge, Charles lams, and
  Robert Jones all died.

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• Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg
  was considered his last great poem. He wrote
  this after reading in the news paper of his
  friend James Hoggs death.

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• By the time Wordsworth died on April 13, 1850,
  he was widely considered as the best poet in the
  world.

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sources

• Kirjasto.sci.fi/wordswor.htm
• Members.aol.com/wordspage/hone.htm
• Probst, Robert E., et al. Elements of Literature
  6th Course. Austin Harcourt Brace, 2000