Title: William Wordsworth Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline
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William Wordsworth Biography
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Content: William Wordsworth died after a short illness on 23 April 1850. Wordsworth’s major legacy was the introduction of a new attitude towards nature as he introduced nature imagery into his work, and presented a fresh view of the relationship between man and the natural world. As a poet, Wordsworth delved deeply into his own sensibilities as he traced the growth of a poet’s mind in his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’. Wordsworth not only created some of the finest poetry of his times, but he also placed poetry at the center of human existence, pronouncing it to be “as immortal as the heart of man.” Trivia
‘The Prelude’, was intended by the poet to be an introduction to a long philosophical poem, ‘The Recluse’, which he never finished in his life time. In 1792, he met John "Walking" Stewart, an English traveler and philosopher who had a major influence on his poetry. He and his friends Coleridge and Robert Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets". He succeeded Southey as Britain’s poet laureate in 1843 and held that post until his death in 1850.