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Born
in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770.
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His
father, a lawyer, taught him poetry and allowed him access to his library.
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In
1791 he got a B. A. Degree at St John’s College, Cambridge.
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In
1791 he traveled to Revolutionary France and was fascinated by the Republican
movement.
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In
1792 he had a daughter, Caroline, from a French aristocratic woman, Annette Vallon.
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The
Reign of Terror led him to become estranged from the Republic, and the war
between England and France caused him to return to England.
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In
1795 he developed a close friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with
whom he collaborated in the 1797-1799 period to write Lyrical Ballads.
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In
1843 he became the Poet Laureate.
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He
died in 1850.
Works:
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Lyrical
Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798).
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Lyrical
Ballads, with Other Poems (1800). This edition contains the famous Preface, the Manifesto
of English Romanticism.
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Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).
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The
Excursion (1814).
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The
Prelude (1850).
Wordsworth’s Style:
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Abandoned
18th-century poetic diction.
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Almost
always used blank verse.
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Proved
skillful at verse forms such as sonnets, odes, ballads, and lyrics.
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