Wordsworth

Wordsworth by Frederic W. H. Myers is a comprehensive biography of the renowned English poet, William Wordsworth. The book delves into the life and work of Wordsworth, tracing his early years in the Lake District, his education at Cambridge, and his travels throughout Europe. Myers explores Wordsworth's literary influences, including his relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and his contributions to the Romantic movement in poetry. The book also examines Wordsworth's personal life, including his marriage and family, and his political beliefs. With extensive research and analysis, Wordsworth provides a detailed portrait of one of the most important poets of the 19th century.1919. The life of Wordsworth, who was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity. Contents: Birth and Education-Cambridge; Residence in London and in France; Miss Wordsworth-Lyrical Ballads-Settlement at Grasmere; The English Lakes; Marriage-Society-Highland Tour; Sir George Beaumont-Death of John Wordsworth; Happy Warrior and Patriotic Poems; Children-Life at Rydal Mount-The Excursion; Poetic Diction-Laodamia-Evening Ode; Natural Religion; Italian Tour Ecclesiastical Sonnets; Political Views; Laureateship; and Letters on the Kendal and Windermere Railway. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

First published in 1881, this biography explores the work of William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Arguing that Wordsworth's poems marked the transition from neoclassicism to romanticism in English verse, it reveals how his profound imagination and thought characterised the romantic era, and made a major contribution to English literary history.