By William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the most important of the English Romantic poets. He used to be a lot prompted via the occasions of the French Revolution in his adolescence, and he intentionally broke clear of the synthetic diction of the Augustan and neo-classical culture of the eighteenth century. He sought to put in writing within the language of normal women and men, of standard options, points of interest and sounds, and his early poetry represents this clean method of his paintings. Wordsworth spent so much of his grownup lifestyles within the Lake District along with his sister Dorothy and his spouse Mary, through whom he had 4 kids. His amazing autobiographical poem The Prelude was once accomplished in 1805, yet used to be no longer released until eventually after his demise, and it really is incorporated during this complete version of Wordsworth's poetry.
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