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Wordsworth’s birthplace in Cockermouth, Cumberland * * I William Wordsworth’ life II Major works IⅤ Wordsworth’s poetry III Some criticism Born: 7 April 1770 Cockermouth , England Died: 23 April 1850(aged 80) Cumberland , England Occupation: Poet Literary Movement: Romanticism Notable Works: 《The Excursion》 《Lyrical Ballads》 Literary Position：A leader of English Romanticism ，A lake poet ，Poet of nature Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge Robert Southey (1779-1787) William attended theGrammar School in Hawkshead. In 1787, Wordsworth left his beloved Lake District and started his study at St. John’s College, Cambridge. in 1791, He graduated with B.A., putting an end to the first of four periods of his long and uneventful life. And it was in the same year that William Wordsworth made his debut by a sonnet in the European Magazine. In 1793, he was obliged to return to England after his allowance was cut off. The next few years he published 2 volumes of poetry, Descriptives(1793) and Evening Walk(1793), both written in a conventional eighteenth-century style In 1795 ,Wordsworth returned with his sister Dorothy to the Lake District and devoted himself to reading and wwriting while his sister managed the household. In 1795, he published a verse drama, The Borderers. In 1797, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and they started a friendship. His sister Dorothy Wordsworth regarded his sister as his confidante and inspirer, made him turn his eyes to “the face of nature” and take an interest in the peasant living in their neighborhood. She also induced him to transform his observation of the landscape into the revelation of the beauty of nature in poetry. Cloeridge In their partnership, Coleridge was to take up the “supernatural, or at least romantic” subjet, while Wordsworth was “to give the charm of novelty to things of every day. Two important