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: Both friends  came to believe that the realities of life were in stark contradiction  (disagreement) to the visionary expectations of their youth. Wordsworth  characteristically sought to redefine his own identity in ways that  would allow him a measure of meaning. The new turn his life took in 1802  resulted in an inner change that set the new course his poetry followed  from then on. Poems about England and Scotland began pouring forth from  Wordsworth's pen, while France and Napoleon (1769–1821)  soon became Wordsworth's favorite symbols of cruelty and  oppression. His nationalistic (intense pride in one's own  country) inspiration led him to produce the two "Memorials of a  Tour in Scotland" (1803, 1814) and the group entitled  "Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty." Poems of 1802
The best poems of 1802, however, deal with a deeper level of inner  change. In Wordsworth's poem "Intimations of  Immortality" (March–April), he plainly recognized that  "The things which I have seen I now can see no more"; yet  he emphasized that although the "visionary gleam" had  fled, the memory remained, and although the "celestial  light" had vanished, the "common sight" of  "meadow, grove and stream" was still a potent (strong)  source of delight and solace (comfort). Thus Wordsworth shed his earlier tendency to idealize nature and turned  to a more sedate (calm) doctrine (set of beliefs) of orthodox  Christianity. Younger poets and critics soon blamed him for this  "recantation" (renouncing), which they equated with his  change of mind about the French Revolution.