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: The inward odyssey (journey) of the  poet was described not for its own sake but as a sample and as an  adequate image of man at his most sensitive. Wordsworth shared the general romantic notion that personal experience  is the only way to gain living knowledge. The purpose of The Prelude was to recapture and interpret, with detailed thoroughness, the whole  range of experiences that had contributed to the shaping of his own  mind. Wordsworth refrained from publishing the poem in his lifetime,  revising it continuously. Most important and, perhaps, most to be  regretted, the poet also tried to give a more orthodox tinge to his  early mystical faith in nature. Later years
Wordsworth's estrangement (growing apart) from Coleridge in 1810  deprived him of a powerful incentive to imaginative and intellectual  alertness. Wordsworth's appointment to a government position in  1813 relieved him of financial care. Wordsworth's undiminished love for nature made him view the  emergent (just appearing) industrial society with undisguised reserve. He opposed the Reform Bill of 1832, which, in his view, merely  transferred political power from the land owners to the manufacturing  class, but he never stopped pleading in favor of the victims of the  factory system. In 1843 Wordsworth was appointed poet laureate (official poet of a  country).