Knowra William Wordsworth William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet whose writing made memory, ordinary life, and encounters with nature central subjects of poetry.
Lyrical Ballads : A poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and often associated with the start of English Romanticism. Its 1800 preface explains Wordsworth’s call for poetry grounded in ordinary life and everyday language.
Romanticism : An artistic and intellectual movement emphasizing imagination, emotion, nature, and individual experience. Wordsworth is a defining English poet of this broader movement.
Dorothy Wordsworth : An English diarist and writer whose journals document the Wordsworths’ lives and landscapes. Her observations informed William’s writing and preserve details of their shared life.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud : A poem by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, recalling a field of daffodils beside a lake. Its remembered flowers exemplify the conversion of a past sight into present pleasure.
The Prelude : William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem recounting the growth of his mind through memory, experience, and encounters with nature. This long poem traces the experiences Wordsworth considered formative to his poetic imagination.
Recollection in Tranquillity : A process in which emotion is recollected in a calm state and reshaped into poetry. Wordsworth’s account describes how past feeling becomes poetic expression.
Robert Southey : An English poet and prose writer who became Poet Laureate in 1813. Southey belonged to the Lake Poets circle associated with Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Lines Written in Early Spring : A short poem by William Wordsworth that contrasts nature’s harmony with human suffering. It shows his nature poetry turning from delight toward moral unease.
Tintern Abbey : William Wordsworth’s 1798 poem reflecting on memory, nature, and a return to the Wye Valley. It gives a concentrated account of how remembered landscapes shape the mind.
Autobiographical poetry : Poetry that draws on the poet’s own life, memories, and personal experience. The Prelude turns Wordsworth’s life into an account of poetic development.
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