Title: William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism | TheNiche
Headings: William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism
William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism
By Lechi Eke

Content: They returned to a new complex versification. All three of them died young: Shelley – 29 (of boat mishap: drowning), Byron – 36 (fever); Keats – 26 (tuberculosis). The first generation Romantic poets lived longer, maybe because they were not as wild as the first. For instance, Wordsworth’s political radicalism did not lead him to rebel against his religious upbringing like P. B. Shelley. In fact, Wordsworth wrote in his 1822 Ecclesiastical Sketches, that he’s willing to shed his blood for the Church of England. His 1814 long poem, The Excursion, which became extremely popular in the 19 th century, features three characters: the Wanderer, the Solitary who is portrayed as having experienced the hopes and miseries of the French Revolution, and the Pastor who dominates the last third of the poem, shows that the poet had some respect for religion.