William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Autor/a de Lyrical Ballads
Sobre l'autor
William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Born April 7, 1770 in the "Lake Country" of northern England, the great English poet William Wordsworth, son of a prominent aristocrat, was orphaned at an early age. He attended boarding school in Hawkesmead and, after an undistinguished career at Cambridge, he spent mostra'n més a year in revolutionary France, before returning to England a penniless radical. Wordsworth later received honorary degrees from the University of Durham and Oxford University. He is best known for his work "The Prelude", which was published after his death. For five years, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived very frugally in rural England, where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Lyrical Ballads", published anonymously in 1798, led off with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" and ended with Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey". Between these two masterworks are at least a dozen other great poems. "Lyrical Ballads" is often said to mark the beginning of the English romantic revolution. A second, augmented edition in 1800 was prefaced by one of the great manifestos in world literature, an essay that called for natural language in poetry, subject matter dealing with ordinary men and women, a return to emotions and imagination, and a conception of poetry as pleasure and prophecy. Together with Robert Southey, these three were known as the "Lake Poets", the elite of English poetry. Before he was 30, Wordsworth had begun the supreme work of his life, The Prelude, an immensely long autobiographical work on "The Growth of the Poet's Mind," a theme unprecedented in poetry. Although first finished in 1805, The Prelude was never published in Wordsworth's lifetime. Between 1797 and 1807, he produced a steady stream of magnificent works, but little of his work over the last four decades of his life matters greatly. "The Excursion", a poem of epic length, was considered by Hazlitt and Keats to be among the wonders of the age. After "Lyrical Ballads", Wordsworth turned to his own life, his spiritual and poetical development, as his major theme. More than anyone else, he dealt with mysterious affinities between nature and humanity. Poems like the "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" have a mystical power quite independent of any particular creed, and simple lyrics like "The Solitary Reaper" produced amazingly powerful effects with the simplest materials. Wordsworth also revived the sonnet and is one of the greatest masters of that form. Wordsworth is one of the giants of English poetry and criticism, his work ranging from the almost childishly simple to the philosophically profound. Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson in 1802 and in 1813, obtained a sinecure as distributor of stamps for Westmoreland. At this stage of his life, Wordsworth's political beliefs had strayed from liberal to staunchly conservative. His last works were published around 1835, a few trickled in as the years went on, but the bulk of his writing had slowed. In 1842 he was awarded a government pension and in 1843 became the Poet Laureate of England, after the post was vacated by his friend Coleridge. Wordsworth wrote over 523 sonnets in the course of his lifetime. Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850. He is buried in Grasme Curchyard. He was 80 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Home at Grasmere: The Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and the Poems of William Wordsworth (Penguin Classics) (1900) 152 exemplars
Dove Cottage: The Wordsworths at Grasmere 1799-1803, being The Grasmere Journal by Dorothy Wordsworth together with… (1966) 25 exemplars
Poems of William Wordsworth Collector's Edition Easton Press Library of Great Poetry (1777) 18 exemplars
Selected Poems 17 exemplars
the poetical works of wordsworth (with memoir, explanatory notes etc) (the chandos classics) (1885) 15 exemplars
The Great Romantics: Selected Poems: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1994) 15 exemplars
Poems 14 exemplars
William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge: Selected critical essays / edited by Thomas M. Raysor (Crofts classics) (1958) 13 exemplars
The Poetical Works Of William Wordsworth, Vol. 1 12 exemplars
Wordsworth's Poetical Works 12 exemplars
Works (III) 11 exemplars
100 Selected Poems, William Wordsworth: Collectable Hardbound edition [Hardcover] WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (2018) 11 exemplars
Selected poems 9 exemplars
Selected Works (Oxford Authors) 8 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 1, The Early Years 1787-1805 (1967) 8 exemplars
The poems of William Wordsworth collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series. Volume I (2009) 6 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 3, The Middle Years 1812-1820 (1969) 6 exemplars
Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth 6 exemplars
Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855. Collected and edited by William Knight Volume 1 (2010) 6 exemplars
Selections from the poems of William Wordsworth 6 exemplars
Selected poems 6 exemplars
Works (I) 5 exemplars
William Wordsworth's The prelude : with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The… (1954) 5 exemplars
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads 4 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 2, The Middle Years 1806-1811 (1969) 4 exemplars
Runoja 4 exemplars
William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) (2011) 4 exemplars
Selected Poems 3 exemplars
LXXV sonnets 3 exemplars
The Deserted Cottage. Illustrated with Twenty-One Designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert. Engraved by the… (1859) 3 exemplars
Wordsworth & Coleridge 3 exemplars
William Wordsworth (Poet to Poet) 3 exemplars
The poems of William Wordsworth collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series. Volume II (2009) 3 exemplars
Descriptive sketches. In verse. Taken during a pedestrian tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps. (1984) 3 exemplars
The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume: 150 Tales, Poems & Carols (Illustrated): Silent Night, Ring Out… (2015) 3 exemplars
Literary criticism of William Wordsworth 3 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 6, The Later Years 1835-1839 (1982) 3 exemplars
Poems from Wordsworth 3 exemplars
Wordsworth's tract on the Convention of Cintra (published 1809) with two letters of Wordsworth written in the year… (1915) 3 exemplars
WORDSWORTH'S SHORTER POEMS (LIBRARY OF CLASSICS) 3 exemplars
London, 1802 3 exemplars
Wordsworth : Selected Poems (Everyman) 2 exemplars
William Wordsworth 2 exemplars
An evening walk. An epistle; in verse. Addressed to a young lady, from the lakes of the north of England. (1793) 2 exemplars
Wordsworth: a selection 2 exemplars
O PRELÚDIO 2 exemplars
Selected Poetry by William Wordsworth - Del Prado Miniature (The Miniature Classics Library) (2003) 2 exemplars
THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 2 exemplars
Nuns Fret Not 2 exemplars
Wordsworth's Poetical Works 2 exemplars
Expostulation and Reply 2 exemplars
The Tables Turned 2 exemplars
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 2 exemplars
Resolution and Independence 2 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 4, The Later Years 1821-1828 (1978) 2 exemplars
Wordsworth's poems of 1807 : the text of the collection originally published as Poems, in two volumes, together with… (1987) 2 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 5, The Later Years 1829-1834 (1979) 2 exemplars
Wordsworth: Poetic Works 2 exemplars
My Heart Leaps Up 2 exemplars
Selected poems from Wordsworth 2 exemplars
“Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower” 2 exemplars
Poems and Extracts 2 exemplars
Poems volume 3 2 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. II: 1798-1800 (2006) 2 exemplars
“A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal” 2 exemplars
Wordsworth: Representative Poems 2 exemplars
Poems of Wordworth ( Golden Treasury Series / Sangorski & Sutcliffe Leather Binding ) (1922) 2 exemplars
“She Dwelt Among Th’untrodden Ways,” 2 exemplars
Our English lakes, mountains, and waterfalls 2 exemplars
“Two April Mornings” 2 exemplars
“The Fountain” 2 exemplars
“Nutting” 2 exemplars
Selected Poetry (Poet to poet) 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth (Oxford Poetry Library) 1 exemplars
Wordsworth: Poems (Volume II) 1 exemplars
Prose works 1 exemplars
Pastoral poems, illustr. with engravings 1 exemplars
Selected Poetry [Miniature Classics Library] 1 exemplars
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. V 1 exemplars
Selected Poetry Of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Prefaces to the "Lyrical Ballads" Etc 1 exemplars
Poems of William Wordsworth (selected), with a Prefactory Notice, Biographical and Critical. 1 exemplars
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Selected Poems New Century Classics 1 exemplars
Wordsworth: Lectures And Essays 1 exemplars
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume 8, A Supplement of New Letters (1993) 1 exemplars
Wordsworth Book of Sonnets 1 exemplars
Wordsworth (The Regent Library) 1 exemplars
Wordsworth: Man & Nature France and Europe 1 exemplars
Poetical Works. 8 vols. 1 exemplars
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Lyrics and Sonnets of Wordsworth 1 exemplars
“To a Butterfly” (I and II) 1 exemplars
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803 1 exemplars
“Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known” 1 exemplars
Wordsworth. Select poems 1 exemplars
The Eve of St. Agnes, Pastora Poems, L'Allegro - All in One Volume — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Shorter Poems of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth (The Library of Great Poetry) 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth: Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 1 exemplars
A Description Of The Scenery Of The Lakes 1 exemplars
The Waggoner, A Poem 1 exemplars
Yarrow Revisited 1 exemplars
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Vol. II 1 exemplars
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Vol. V 1 exemplars
Moments with Wordsworth 1 exemplars
English literature 1 exemplars
english literature 1 exemplars
The Poetical works of Wordsworth 1 exemplars
The Prelude : Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge: 1 exemplars
Selected Poems of W. Wordsworth 1 exemplars
The prelude : or, Growth of a poet's mind : an autobiographical poem; Lyrical Ballada (2009) 1 exemplars
The prelude, or, Growth of a poet's mind 1 exemplars
Essays on Wordsworth; a bi-centenary tribute 1 exemplars
Choix de poésies 1 exemplars
The Art Gallery 1 exemplars
Collected Poems of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth: With Numerous Illustration by Alfred Parsons (2017) 1 exemplars
The Grasmere Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Complete works 1 exemplars
A Wordsworth Selection 1 exemplars
Poems Of Nature And Sentiment 1 exemplars
Poemas Wordsworth (bilingüe) 1 exemplars
Ode on Imitations of Immortality 1 exemplars
Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads 1 exemplars
The Collected Works of William Wordsworth: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 exemplars
I wandered lonely as a cloud: Balladen, Sonette, Versepen (Straelener Manuskripte. Neue Folge) (2014) 1 exemplars
Poemas 1 exemplars
Poems of Wordsworth in Two Volumes 1 exemplars
In Passing 1 exemplars
The Shorter Poems Of William Wordsworth; edited, with an introduction by George Mackaness (1927) 1 exemplars
Selections from Nineteenth-Century Poets 1 exemplars
The poetical works of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Wordsworth's Poems In Three Volumes, V. 1-3 1 exemplars
Selected Narrative Poems: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, Browning (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplars
The Sonnets of William Wordsworth. Collected in One Volume. With an Essay on The History of the English Sonnet By… (1884) 1 exemplars
Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works 1 exemplars
Poems of William Wordsworth (Selected) 1 exemplars
The earlier poems of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Thirteen-book Prelude. Vol. 1 1 exemplars
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Wordsworth's Sonnets 1 exemplars
Poems, Volume One 1 exemplars
My Heart Leaps Up and Other Poems 1 exemplars
Eight Poets 1 exemplars
Lucy {poem} 1 exemplars
Yarrow revisited, and other poems 1 exemplars
The select poetical works of William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
The Wreath: A Collection of Poems. . . . 1 exemplars
Ward and Lock's (late Shaw's) pictorial and historical guide to the English lakes, their scenery and… 1 exemplars
Wordsworth's Excursion. The wanderer. Edited, with life, introduction and notes, by H. H. Turner. 1 exemplars
Grace Darling 1 exemplars
Selected Poems of Wordsworth, Worlds Classics 1 exemplars
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II 1 exemplars
Poems of Nature and Sentment 1 exemplars
We are seven = We zijn met zeven 1 exemplars
Our English lakes, moutains, and waterfalls 1 exemplars
Poems of William Wordsworth including passages from the Prelude and poems from Lyrical Ballads 1 exemplars
Five Lucy Poems 1 exemplars
Sonnets 1 exemplars
The Selected Poetry of William Worsworth 1 exemplars
Sonata in D minor : for pianoforte 1 exemplars
Wordsworth 1 exemplars
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. I 1 exemplars
Select Poems from Wordsworth and Tennyson 1 exemplars
Select Poems of William Wordsworth Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, Litt. D. with Engravings 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth Complete Works Worlds Best Ultimate Collection - 300 Works - All Poems, Poetry, Major & Minor Works,… (2013) 1 exemplars
Intimations of Mortality 1 exemplars
A selection of poems by William Wordsworth 1 exemplars
Poesia selecionada. 1 exemplars
Wordsworth day by day 1 exemplars
Lucy Gray, or Solitude 1 exemplars
The Poetical Words of Wordsworth 1 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. V: 1806-1815 (2008) 1 exemplars
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Poems (Poetry Series) 1 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. IX: Last Poems (2008) 1 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. VII: 1816-1822 (2008) 1 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. X: Prefatory Essays and Notes (2008) 1 exemplars
THE PRELUDE: BKS. 1 & 2 AND PTS. OF BKS. 5 & 12 1 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. VIII: 1823-1833 (2008) 1 exemplars
The Poems Vol 1-2 1 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in ten volumes - Vol. IV: 1801-1805 (2008) 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth. Choix de poésies, texte anglais et traduction en vers par Émile Legouis 1 exemplars
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free [poem] 1 exemplars
Wordsworth Poetry 1 exemplars
Poems everyman edition 1994 1 exemplars
Wordsworth: Poems (Volume III) 1 exemplars
William Wordsworth: The Poems Volume One 1 exemplars
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) (2014) 1 exemplars
The poetical works of William Wordsworth DCL 1 exemplars
British Poets: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth with a Memoir, Seven Volumes in Three 1 exemplars
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Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Quest for Permanence: Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats (1959) — Featured Artist — 9 exemplars
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La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
William Wordsworth - Sein Leben, Seine Werke, Seine Zeitgenossen, Volumes 1-2 (2018) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1770-04-07
- Data de defunció
- 1850-04-23
- Lloc d'enterrament
- St. Oswald's, Grasmere, England, UK
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Rydal Mount, Lake District, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England, UK
Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, UK(birth)
Rydal Mount, Westmorland, England, UK(death) - Educació
- University of Cambridge (St. John's College)
- Professions
- poet
- Relacions
- Wordsworth, Dorothy (sister)
Wordsworth, Christopher (nephew)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (friend) - Premis i honors
- Honorary Doctorate, Durham University (1838)
Honorary Doctorate, Oxford University (1839)
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1843-1850)
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Ressenyes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 532
- També de
- 73
- Membres
- 9,967
- Popularitat
- #2,387
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 50
- ISBN
- 549
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 43
What the Prelude metahistorically signifies is the birth of a new consciousness into a modern world — of knocking back on the womb of nature — and using language as a means to return to it (by seeing the trees and rivers speaking to him) though language is the means by which the Poet becomes conscious of his own alienation — yet ironically Language is the force of his alienation — for were he not trapped in linguistic, serial time he would be in the cosmic sentience of the babe. Thereby, he hears language in nature itself (in close relation to Kabbalah, and the knowledge of the true name of things).
And so the constant need to instantiate the poem into the land, the object of the world, itself. Either by implanting the poem into a location and giving it a localized sense of being, or by literally carving the poem into the rock, the clinging becomes tighter. Wordsworth, losing both parents by age 13, representing Oedipal undertones through this loss of the connectivity with nature, the orphan lost in the world, and so lacking the real parent is resolved unconsciously through the archetypal Parent of Father Sky and Mother Earth. At one moment, stealing a bird away from a snare that someone else has caught, runs away and hears low breathing of himself being caught by the neighbors and townsmen but on a higher turn on the spiral: that Bird is the symbol of the Self and he is stealing himself away from nature and the breathing and rumbling heard is of Nature itself for the process of individuation is the crime of individuation.
All during the poem, Wordsworth struggles to put consciousness back in nature and attempts to reachieve Nature — but after his experiences of the celebration of the Artist (with capital A) and the artistic unity of being to heal the wound is reached — he reaches the integration of his consciousness equal to nature. Many miss these concluding lines, marking him as a mere simple animist who is trying to get back into nature but what the poem is really about is psychology and consciousness and a phenomenology of the Self in almost Hegelian terms.… (més)