英国文学William Wordsworth1.pptVIP

Early experience: Attended Hawkshead Grammar School in 1778 Attended Cambridge from 1787-1791 but failed to graduate Visited France in 1790 and influenced by the turmoil of the French Revolution Left college in 1791 in order to return to France and support the Revolution Residence in the Lake District Dove Cottage in Grasmere: Lyrical Ballads and the “Lake Poets” Rydal Mount: spent his later years; turned to be conservative; Major Works Lyrical Ballads in 1798 with Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Prelude - Long autobiographical poem written between 1798-1805 523 sonnets Poems on nature “