

William Wordsworth passed away in Rydal Mount, Westmoreland, England on (Bateson 5). Thomas De Quincy basically said that Wordsworth appeals to people’s emotions and tries to get people to think about their own lives. Wordsworth and his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge made a book called Lyrical Ballads. For example, the poem The Ruined Cottage was about a woman who had loved ones die around the time of his brother’s death. The theme of his books usually was related to his emotions. In fact, he even said, “Readers accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will perhaps frequently have to snuggle with feelings of strangeness and awkwardness”.

William Wordsworth believed in writing in ways where people understood what they were reading. Many of William Wordsworth’s poems were about nature such as The Prelude, which compared a mother’s love to nature (Bloom 28). He also seemed to have a great description of nature and he focused on the “ Mind of the Man”. He believed that serious poems may describe “Situations from common life” and have normal writing styles. He believed that poems could be written in a plain style using everyday words that were easy to understand. Raisley died shortly after that and Wordsworth didn’t have to worry about money for a while. Calvert said he would share his money with Wordsworth. William Wordsworth met a man named Raisley Calvert who seemed sick. He also wrote the poem Tintern Abbey, where he seems to lose his optimistic belief when the poem states “nature never did betray the heart that loved her”. This poem shows that he lost his youthful creative mind. He wrote about his sadness in the poem Elegiac Stanza. He became very sad when his brother drowned. In 1802, he married Mary Hutchinson and they had five children. He became a student of the philosopher William Godwin. He wanted to get rid of the Monarchy by dissolving the churches. He went to France during the French Revolution and later became an enthusiastically radical politician. William Wordsworth received an education at Hawkshead Grammar School. William Wordsworth Elegiac Stanzas Reading The Norton Anthology of English Literature William Wordsworth Elegiac Stanzas One more of Wordsworth’s poems with a generic title, whose meaning has to be explained by a long subtitle Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont.

After his dad dies, his uncles become guardians of him and his siblings. He didn’t spend much time with his father since he died after Wordsworth turned thirteen. His mother died when Wordsworth is eight. His father was a steward and an electioneering agent.

He lived with his mother, father, and four siblings. His parents raised him in an upper-middle-class family. Wordsworth took the reviews stoically.William Wordsworth came into this world on April 7th, 1770 in Cumberland, England. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" couldn't have been further from it. Of any positives within Poems in Two Volumes, perceived masculinity in "The Happy Warrior" was one. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of "Out of the frying pan, into the fire". Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Wrangham would push a softer approach. clothing in language not simple, but puerile". Byron said of the volume, in one of its first reviews, "Mr. However, it was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron, whom Wordsworth would come to despise. Poems in Two Volumes has been considered to be the peak of Wordsworth's power, and of his popularity.
