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 cosmic outlook  rooted in the self is a central feature of romanticism. Wordsworth's poetry is undoubtedly the  most impressive example of this view in English literature. Poems of the middle period
Wordsworth, even while writing his contributions to the Lyrical Ballads, had been feeling his way toward more ambitious schemes. He had embarked  on a long poem in unrhymed verse, "The Ruined Cottage,"  later referred to as "The Peddlar." It was intended to  form part of a vast philosophical poem with the title "The  Recluse, or Views of Man, Nature and Society." 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.