Title: William Wordsworth Biography - life, childhood, death, history, school, mother, old, information, born, college, time
Headings: William Wordsworth Biography
William Wordsworth Biography
His early years
Stay in France
Publication of first poems
"Tintern Abbey"
Poems of the middle period
Changes in philosophy
Poems of 1802
The Prelude
Later years
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Content: However, such a large achievement was still beyond Wordsworth's  scope (area of capabilities) at this time. It was back to the shorter  poetic forms that he turned during the most productive season of his  long literary life, the spring of 1802. The output of these fertile  (creative) months mostly came from his earlier inspirations: nature and  the common people. During this time he wrote "To a  Butterfly," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,"  "To the Cuckoo," "The Rainbow," and other  poems. Changes in philosophy
The crucial event of this period was Wordsworth's loss of the  sense of mystical oneness, which had sustained (lasted throughout) his  highest imaginative flights. Indeed, a mood of despondency (depression)  descended over Wordsworth, who was then thirty-two years old. In the summer of 1802 Wordsworth spent a few weeks in Calais, France,  with his sister Dorothy. Wordsworth's renewed contact with France  only confirmed his disillusionment (disappointment) with the French  Revolution and its aftermath. During this period Wordsworth had become increasingly concerned with  Coleridge, who by now was almost totally dependent upon opium (a highly  addictive drug) for relief from his physical sufferings.