William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It only Wordsworth as the author, and it included a preface. Against the “ gudiness” of the 18th-century poetic diction. Wordsworth gives his famous definition of poetry:” poetry is the spontaneous(自发的) overflow of powerful feelings.”
Coleridge was esteemed by some of his contemporaries and is generally recognized today as a lyrical poet and literary critic of the first rank. His poetic themes range from the supernatural to the domestic. His treatises, lectures, and compelling conversational powers made him one of the most influential English literary critics and philosophers of the 19th century.
Education: 1782 at Christ's Hospital ( a scholarship school ) 1791 in Cambridge university 1793 graduated without taking a degree and went to Oxford University Ideological content : founded a “ pantisocracy ” with Robert Southey (egalitarianism, utopian society) failed.
The Fourth Period
1797 - 1807
In 1798, Lyrical Ballads was published. It is a very collection experimental poems in the English Romantic Movement, and marked the beginning of the Romantic revival. In 1798-1799,he and his sister and Coleridge had a journey to Germany. After the journey, he returned to the northern lake region in England. works: I wandered lonely as a cloud 《我好似一朵流云独自漫游》 Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 《丁登寺杂咏》1798 Lucy Poems 《露茜》 1799 The Solitary Reaper 《孤独的收割女》1805 Ode: Intimations of Immortality 《不朽颂》1807 The Prelude 《序曲》1798-1839
William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
Brief Introduction
Life and Works
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Family ——— Father ,John Wordsworth; Mother, Ann Cookson; Brothers . and Sisters： Dorothy、Christopher、Richard、John. School ——— Hawkshead Grammar School (1779)、St. John’s College, Cambridge (1787) Born ——— 7th April, 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland. Died ——— 23rd April ,1850 (aged 80)
Health: Rheumatic pain, took opium(鸦片) Another period of productivity: some works on literary criticism, philosophy, ect.
Died: in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 of heart failure compounded by an unknown lung disorder.
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Main Works
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 《古舟子咏》 1798 Christabel 《克丽斯特贝尔》1816 Kubla Khan 《忽必烈汗》 1816 Biographia Literaria 《文学传记》1817
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Other Works
《伦敦》 London
《漫游》 The Wanderer
《隐者》 The Solitary 《写于早春》 Lines Written in Early Spring 《 失去的爱 》 The Lost Love 《水仙花》 Daffodils 《我们是七个》 We are seven 《威斯敏斯特桥上》Composed upon Westminster Bridge
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Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》
(1)This is a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.
(2)The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.
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(3)It begins with Coleridge’s long poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 《古舟子咏》and ends with Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey 《丁登寺》.
The Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800)
His Position-- Poet Laureate
William Wordsworth is the leading figure of the English romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period. His is a voice of searchingly comprehensive humanity and one that 'inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically and naturally.
The Second Period
1779 - 1793
Wordsworth was greatly influenced by the French Revolution During his trip to France in 1779. Because his allowance was cut off ，he had to return to England in 1793. And then, he become more and more conservative in politics. Works: Descriptive Sketches and An evening Walk (1793). Both written in a conventional eighteenth-century style.
The most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the 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 return to nature
Life Experience
Marriage: Sarah Frick (sister of Southey’s wife)
Friendship: Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth (1797 in Keswick and culminated in 1812)
The First period:
1778 - 1791
In 1779 ,Wordsworth attended the Grammar School in Hawkshead. In 1787,he left Lake District and study at St. John’s College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with B.A. in 1791. And inΒιβλιοθήκη BaiduThis year he made his debut(处女作) by a sonnet in The European Magazine.
The Third Period
1795 - 1797
In 1795, Wordsworth and Dorothy returned to the Lake District. And in this year he published a verse drama, The Borderers. In 1797, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. (they are be called The Lake Poets) He entered a period of remarkable creativity and introspection.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834 )
Life Experience Main works Position
Life Experience
Born: 1772 in Devon, England
Family Background: father is a priest (died at 1781)