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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth. Julio Perez Tracey Driver Christian Ruddick Jessica Spaulding . 1770-1850 Mother’s death led to break up of Wordsworth household Sent away to Hawkshead 1791 fell in love with Annette Vallon in France Lacking money returned alone to England 1792

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William Wordsworth

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  1. William Wordsworth Julio Perez Tracey Driver Christian Ruddick Jessica Spaulding

  2. 1770-1850 • Mother’s death led to break up of Wordsworth household • Sent away to Hawkshead • 1791 fell in love with Annette Vallon in France • Lacking money returned alone to England 1792 • Fell into deep depression • 1795 reunited with beloved sister Dorothy • Dorothy and him moved to Racedown, Dorset • Met and grew close to Coleridge Biography

  3. 1799 William and sister resettled in Lake District with Coleridge nearby • 1802 William married childhood friend Mary Hutchinson • Next 20 years struggled to find readers and acceptance for his work • Late 1820’s reputation gradually improved • 1830’s hugely popular • 1843 immense achievement recognized with poet laureateship

  4. In England, a literary and artistic movement originating in the late 18th century and lasting until the early decades of the 19th century. • Stressed the importance of the individual’s subjective experiences • Valued emotion, spontaneity, and imagination What is romanticism?

  5. Long, free-flowing sentences, often with phrases that interrupt main ideas. • Inverted syntax, expected order of words is reversed • Unusual punctuation Wordsworth’s poems contain distinctive stylistic elements

  6. Blank verse (unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter) • Fluid and natural style • Subject: childhood memory • Monologue imaginatively spoken by a single speaker to himself • Subtle strain of religious sentiment Tintern Abbey

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