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: This grand project  never materialized as originally planned. Abstract, impersonal speculation was not comfortable for Wordsworth. He  could handle experiences in the philosophical-lyrical manner only if  they were closely related to himself and could arouse his creative  feelings and imagination. During the winter months he spent in Germany,  he started work on his magnum opus (greatest work), The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind. It was published after his death. 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.