William+Wordsworth

= = = = = **William Wordsworth ** =

By Dartagnan, Grace, Sydney, and Elise
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 * General Information **

William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cambria, England on April 7, 1770. William Wordsworth is considered one of the most important English romantic poet by some scholars. William had no middle name. He had four siblings. His mother died when he was eight in 1778 and was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School. Hawkshead Grammar School is where he began to love poetry. His father died in 1783 making him an orphan. He went to college at Cambridge University in 1787. He graduated in 1791. His sister, Dorthy Wordsworth, was also a poet. After graduation, he went to France to support the French Revolution. This is when he began to have more sympathy and interest in life. He returned home December 1792. In 1795, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and they collaborated on //Lyrical Ballads// in 1798. //Lyrical Ballads// was a collection of romantic poems. It was the symbolic beginning of the English Romantic movement. Most of the poems in //Lyrical Ballads// were by Wordsworth. In 1800, the second edition of //Lyrical Ballads// was written. Wordsworth married Mary Hutchison, a childhood friend, in 1802, and had five children: Dora, Cathrine, Thomas, John, and Willy. 1815 was a terrible year for Wordsworth. His daughter In July, Catherine died of convulsions at the age of three. His son Thomas died of pneumonia in December. Mary came close to death too. These events inspired a poem of his called "Surprised by Joy". In 1847, his daughter Dora died of tuberculosis. He died in 1850, living for 80 years. His most famous work was //The Prelude//, written in 1850. He is best remembered for the pieces composed between 1798 and 1806. William Wordsworth made a difference in the literature world. He inspired many writers with his poems involving man and nature. Some writers he inspired were John Dyer, James Thomson, and Thomas Gray. He made a large impact in the English romantic movement of poetry.

Poem
=I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud= I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

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//(These are works by and about William Wordsworth. Any written after 1850 are not by William Wordsworth)// **Poetry** //An Evening Walk// (1793). //Descriptive Sketches// (1793). //Borders// (1795). //Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey// (1798). //Lyrical Ballads// (1798). //Upon Westminster Bridge// (1801). //Intimations of Immortality// (1806). //Miscellaneous Sonnets// (1807). //Poems I-II// (1807). //The Excursion// (1814). //The White Doe of Rylstone// (1815)//. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud// (1815). Peter //Bell// (1819). //The Waggoner// (1819). //The River Duddon// (1820). //Ecclesiastical Sketches// (1822). //Memorials of a Tour of the Continent// (1822). //Yarrow Revisited// (1835). //The Prelude Or Growth of a Poet's Mind// (1850). //The Recluse// (1888). //The Poetical Works// (1949). //Selected Poems// (1959). //Complete Poetical Works// (1971). //Poems// (1977).
 * Works **

**Prose** //Prose Works// (1896). //Literary Criticism// (1966). //Letters of Dorothy and William Wordsworth// (1967). //Letters of the Wordsworth Family// (1969). //Prose Works// (1974). //The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth// (1981).

**Essays** //Essay Upon Epitaphs// (1810)


 * Bibliography **

> (295 × 342 pixels, file size: 12 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) > Wordsworth at the time he wrote //The Prelude// > Haydon NationalPortrait Gallery, London, England. > Wordsworth in 1842 > http://www.silverplanet.com/images/england > Dove Cottage in Grasmere is the site of where the poem > "I Wandered As Lonely As a Cloud" was written. The > poem takes place outside of the cottage.
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**Biblography for Video**
 * //Golden Ocean Sunset//. Photograph. //Beautiful Ocean Wallpaper//. 2011. Web. 14 Dec. 2011. .
 * Prokopenko, Stanislav. //How to Draw Eyes//. 2010. Photograph. Http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/05/draw-eyes/.// Http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/05/draw-eyes///. 2010. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. [].
 * Vogel, Amanda. //Guy Lying on a Couch//. 2010. Photograph. Fitness Blogger Boot Camp. //Http://fitnesswriter.blogspot.com///. 24 Nov. 2010. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. []
 * ===== Pucci, Alessandro. //Magritte//. 2005. Photograph. Villavallelonga, Abruzzo Italy, Villavallelonga, Abruzzo Italy. (picture of cloud) =====
 * Robinson, Mark. //Daffodil Field in South East Cornwall//. 2009. Photograph. Mark Robinson, South East Cornwall. (picture of daffodil field)
 * T., Zach. //View of Blüemlisalp and Oeschinen Lake, Bernese Alps//. 2007. Photograph. Blüemlisalp and Oeschinen Lake, Bernese Alps, Blüemlisalp and Oeschinen Lake, Bernese Alps. (picture of lake and mountains)
 * //Starsinthesky//. 2006. Photograph. //File: Starsinthesky .jpg//. By European Space Agengy. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. [].
 * William, Lona. OurCaliforniaMountains. Dec 13, 2011. http://www.lonnawilliams.com/mountains.html
 * trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/United_Kingdom/photo373524.htm
 * Dani Lisse. December 10, 2011. Blog Spot. []
 * Robinson, Mark. //Daffodils//. 2011. Photograph. Permalink. //Http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2011/04/is-this-the-worst-poem-ever-written-in-english.html//. 15 Apr. 2011. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. .