Wordsworth’s personal life was filled with joy and sorrow. He also wrote scores of much-loved short lyric poems and sonnets. “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” and the autobiographical The Prelude are among his more famous long poems. With sufficient independent means, Wordsworth settled in to the life of a poet, gaining fame and recognition for his work over the years, culminating in 1842, when he was named England’s poet laureate. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” are among the most famous poems in this collection. It would prove to be a milestone in the history of English poetry, one of the books that ushered in the Romantic movement (from 1800 to 1850, approximately). Together, they produced a collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798.
Two years later they moved again, this time to Somerset, to live near Wordsworth’s dear friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1795, Wordsworth received a legacy from a close relative, and he and his sister Dorothy went to live in Dorset. Wordsworth could not return and would not for many years. But in the wake of the French Revolution, which Wordsworth ardently supported, and the subsequent leadership of Napoleon, England and France were at war. Short of money, Wordsworth returned to England, planning to return to France as soon as he was able. In Blois, he met Annette Vallon, whom he hoped to marry. He studied French, and after he graduated, he went to France to gain fluency in the language. Wordsworth attended Cambridge University from 1787 to 1791. The five Wordsworth children were scattered and spent their childhood with different relatives. His mother died when he was just 8 and his father, a lawyer, died when Wordsworth was 13. William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth in Cumbria in northeast England, near the Lake District, whose natural beauty would inspire many of Wordsworth’s poems.
Poetry 15 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth (Regular Verse)
Feature Unit: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Feature Poet: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Feature Unit: The Poetry of World War I. Feature Unit: The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. It is a conversational poem that contains elements of an Ode and dramatic monologue.25. An Anthology of Poems for Further Study “Tintern Abbey” is Wordsworth’s most famous poem, published in 1798. Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.” The son of John and Ann Cookson Wordsworth, Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland in England. He was one of the founders of English Romanticism. William Wordsworth is considered one of the greatest English poets of all time. That floats on high o'er vales and hills,ġ770 – 1850 William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal Thursday, 15 April 1802 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud The Bays were stormy and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the Sea. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway – We rested again and again. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever-changing. When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside, we fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up – But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. Wordsworth wrote the poem in 1804 and was published in 1807. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a “long belt” of daffodils. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (also commonly known as “Daffodils”) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth.
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