华兹华斯简介

Main works
1）lyric poetry (抒情诗) ： Preface to The Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》 Tintern Abbey 《丁登寺旁》 2）Long Poems ： Ｏverture 《序曲》 3）Autobiographical narrative ： Resolution And Independence 《革命与独立》 4）Imitations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 《不朽颂》 • 5）Ｗalking tour《远足》look on life

Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshiper of nature”
Wordsworth thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest.
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Wordsworth’s Childhood
• Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth(north of the lake country), the second child of a fairly prosperous attorney(律师). • At age of 8, mother died .He was insulted by his grandparents , then came his father’s death, when the boy was thirteen .
Wordsworth’s Marriage
• In France , he cohabited(同居) with a French girl and had a daughter . Later he quit the relationship because of his uncle’s objection . • 1802, he married a Westmorland girl, Mary Hutchinson, in whom he found one of the greatest blessings of his life . • Five children were born between 1803 and 1810, two of whom were to die almost simultaneously in 1812 . Death struck Wordsworth a blow that went near his heart .
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge(柯勒律治) and Robert Southey, the three man are known as the “ Lake Poets （湖畔诗人）” Wordsworth's masterwork, Lyrical Ballads(抒情诗集), opened with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner(古舟子咏)."
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Influence on future
• Wordsworth's poetic theory undermine the UK classical poetics rule, a powerful impetus（推动 ）to the innovation of English poetry and the romantic movement development, thus British and American critics called Preface to The Lyrical Ballads ＂English romantic declaration"
华兹华斯认为普通人的普通生活的唯一主题是文学的兴趣
Wordsworth see the world freshly, sympathetically and naturally.
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Contribution
The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a reform to nature.
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• Influenced by Rousseau(卢梭) and the Great French Revolution (liberty, democracy) • Against the darkness of the social reality and advocate beauty of nature. • The Complex of Utopia of British Romanticism 英国浪漫主义乌托邦情结 • 1843 “Poet Laureate(桂冠诗人)” • Died on 23,April 1850 • Buried at St. Oswald’s church
• 华兹华斯的诗歌理论动摇了英国古典主义诗学的统治，有力地推动了 英国诗歌的革新和浪漫主义运动的发展，因而英美评论家将华兹华斯 的《抒情歌谣集序》称为英国浪漫主义的宣言
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The Brief Introduction of Wordsworth
• William Wordsworth(17701850) • Bachelor of Arts . Graduated from St. John’s College , Cambridge (剑桥大学圣约翰学院). • a major English Romantic poet . • launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads .
His Wanderings
• Wordsworth went to Cambridge in October, 1787 and remained there at St. John’s college for four years • None was to his taste——The army, the church, the law, tutorial work, were all contemplated and discarded in turn. He showed no strong bent except for wandering and writing poetry. • 1790 , he started for the Alps(阿尔卑斯山脉) then to London , Switzerland and Italy • 1791 He went to France
William Wordsworth
--lake poet
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Ⅰ、Title Ⅱ、Life introduction Ⅲ、Main works Ⅳ、Contribution
Ⅴ、Influence on future
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Title

Representative of the romantic poets