POET
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
BIOGRAPHY
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), born in Cumbria, England, began writing poetry in grammar school. Before graduating from college, he went on a walking tour of Europe, which deepened his love for nature and his sympathy for the common man, both major themes in his poetry. Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic on the “growth of a poet’s mind.”
POEMS
"Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant"
A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
Character of the Happy Warrior
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
