WilliamWordsworth

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,William Wordsworth,.Wordsworth was of a good height(five feet ten),and not a slender man;on the contrary,by the side of,Southey,his limbs looked thick,almost in a disproportionate degree.But the total effect of Wordsworths person was always worst in a state of motion.Meantime,his face-that was one which would have made amends for greater defects of figure.,(from,R,eminiscenes,of the English Lake Poets,by Thomas de,Quincey,1907),Introduction,William Wordsworth,17701850,English poet,b.,Cockermouth,Cumberland.,One of the great English poets,he was a leader of the romantic movement in England.,Biographical information,Given name,:William,Family name,:Wordsworth,Birth date,:7 April 1770,Death date,:23 April 1850,Nationality,:English,Family relations,father:John Wordsworth mother:Anne Wordsworth wife:Mary Wordsworth(from 1802)brother:Christopher Wordsworth brother:John Wordsworth brother:Richard Wordsworth sister:Dorothy Wordsworth daughter:Caroline,Vallon,Language,:English,Education,Hawkshead Grammar School:1778 St.Johns College,Cambridge(B.A.):1787 to 1791,Honours,Honorary D.C.L.:1838 Poet Laureate:1843,Literary period,:Romantic,Occupation,:Stamp Distributor,Residences,Cockermouth,Cumberland:7 April 1770 London:1791,Racedown,Farm,Dorset:1795,Alfoxden,:1797 Dove Cottage,Grasmere:1799 Allan Bank:1808 Rydal Mount:1813 to 23 April 1850,Buried at,:Grasmere Church,First RPO edition,:1997,Biography(1),William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in a fine Georgian house in,Cockermouth,now called,Wordsworth House,.His father John was estate agent to Sir James,Lowther,who owned the house.The garden at the back,with the River,Derwent,flowing past,was a place of magic and adventure for the young William.William has an elder brother Richard,a younger sister Dorothy and two younger brothers John and Christopher.,His childhood was spent largely in,Cockermouth,and,Penrith,his mothers hometown.William and Dorothy and his future wife Mary Hutchinson attended infant school in Penrith between 1776 and 1777.Williams mother died in Penrith when he was 8.His father died when he was 13,and is buried in the churchyard of,All Saints,Cockermouth,.All Saints church rooms is on the site of the,Cockermouth,school that William attended as a boy.,From 1779 until 1787 William attended the,Grammar School,in,Hawkshead,lodging with Ann Tyson at,Colthouse,initially,then with his brothers.At Hawkshead William thrived-receiving encouragement from the headmaster to read and write poetry.During these years he made many visits to the countryside,gaining inspiration as the powers of nature exercised their influence.,Biography(2),He then went to St Johns College Cambridge,where he was not a notable student,but inevitably matured in thought and sophistication.In 1795 he received a bequest of a friend which gave him the means to pursue a literary career.,In 1795 the,Wordsworths,stayed in a cottage in Dorset,where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert,Southey,.In the years ahead a close relationship developed between William,Dorothy and Coleridge.William and Coleridge then undertook a tour of the Lake District,starting at Temple,Sowerby,and finishing at,Wasdale,Head,via Grasmere.At Grasmere they saw Dove Cottage,then an empty Inn called the Dove and Olive Branch.,Biography(3),In December 1799 William and Dorothy moved into,Dove Cottage,in,Grasmere,.Coleridge had previously moved to,Greta Hall,in,Keswick,.Dorothy was Williams secretary as William dictated his poetry.In 1802 William married his childhood companion Mary Hutchinson,and the first three of their five children were born.Thomas de,Quincey,was a permanent guest,and in 1808 as the cottage became inadequate,they moved to,Allan Bank,in Grasmere,a large house that William had condemned as an eyesore when it was being built.They lived here for two years,with poet and friend Coleridge.They then moved to the Old Rectory,opposite St Oswalds Church,a cold and damp house where his two youngest children died.,Biography(4),In 1813 they moved to,Rydal Mount,where William and Mary stayed until their deaths in 1850 and 1859.Whilst at Rydal Mount William became Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland,and had an office in Church St,Ambleside,.In 1820 he published his Guide through the District of the Lakes.In 1842 he became the Poet Laureate,and resigned his office as Stamp Distributor.,He helped to choose the site of,St Marys Church,built just below Rydal Mount,and where he was a churchwarden from 1833 to 1834.,In 1850 William caught a cold on a country walk,and he died on 23 April,St Georges day,80 years after his birth.He and Mary who died 9 years later have a simple tombstone in the churchyard of,St Oswalds Church,in Grasmere,now one of the most visited literary shrines in the world.William Wordsworth wrote some 70000 lines of verse,40000 lines more than any other poet.,Assessment(1),Wordsworths personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature,es