Title: William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism | TheNiche
Headings: William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism
William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism
By Lechi Eke

Content: However, when he lost his first daughter, Dora, by his wife Mary, he became depressed and stopped writing altogether. Dora died at 42 in 1847. Wordsworth became depressed and died of “aggravated case of pleurisy” three years later in 1850. Wordsworth’s magnum opus (his masterpiece) is considered to be The Prelude, published by his wife, Mary, in the year of his death, months after he expired. It was a kind of autobiographical poem addressed to Coleridge. Here is an excerpt from Wordsworth 1798 collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads (1798) titled: Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! And again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur. – Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion, and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.