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1I、The introduction to Wordsworth as a poet and his major works 1．The introduction to Wordsworth

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth in Cumberland — part of the scenic region in north-west England, the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year. All of his siblings were destined to have successful careers. His elder brother Richard became a lawyer in London; John Wordsworth rose to the rank of Captain on a merchantman of the East India Company; and the youngest of the family, Christopher, became Master of Trinity College at Cambridge. After the death of their mother in 1778, their father sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School and sent Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire. She and William did not meet again for another nine years. His father died when he was 13.

Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge, and received his B.A. degree in 1791. He returned to Hawkshead for his first two summer holidays, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous for the beauty of their landscape. In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and also visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy. His youngest brother, Christopher, rose to be Master of Trinity College.

2. The Introduction To Wordsworth as a poet

William Wordsworth(1770-1850) was born in the “Lake Region,” which, with its bold and varied mountains as well as its group of charming lakes, is the most picturesque part of England proper. In 1797 Wordsworth met S.T.Coleridge, and the two poets collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballad ,first published in 1798.The book marked the opening of an epoch in the history of English poetry—the break with the convention of the18t h century neoclassicism and the beginning of the Romanticism Movement in England. William Wordsworth, with Robert Southey as well as Coleridge, who lived in the English

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Lake District, became known as the “Lake Poets”. Wordsworth was the representative poet of the first generation of Romantics and the chief spokesman of Romantic poetry. On the death of Southey(1843),he was made Poet Laureate. William Wordsworth is the leading figure of the English romantic poetry,the focal poetic voice od the period. He is a voice of searchingly comprehensive humanity and one thar inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically and naturally. The most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry , the poetry of the growing inne r itself, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.

In his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" which is called the 'manifesto' of English Romantic criticism, Wordsworth calls his poems ' experimental'. 1793 saw Wordsworth's first published poetry with the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. He received a legacy of £900 from Raisely Calvert in 1795 so that he could pursue writing poetry. That year, he also met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. The two poets quickly developed a close friendship. In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey. Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge (with insights from Dorothy) produced Lyrical Ballads, an important work in the English Romantic movement. The volume had neither the name of Wordsworth nor Coleridge as the author. One of Wordsworth's most famous poems, "Tintern Abbey", was published in the work, along with Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was significantly augmented in the 1802 edition. This Preface to Lyrical Ballads is considered a central work of Romantic literary theory. In it, Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry, one based on the "real language of men" and which avoids the poetic diction of much eighteenth-century poetry. Here, Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry askeets "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility." A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805.

3. Wordsworth and his major works

Wordsworth's best poems are descriptions of nature—of rivers,mountains,