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WILLIAMWORDSWORTHAll good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. ---- William Wordsworth所有的好诗都是炽烈情感的自然涌流。English poet William Wordsworth was an early leader of romanticism (a literary movement that celebrated nature and concentrated on human emotions) in English poetry and ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.He was also one of the three great lake poets(湖畔诗人). The other two are Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.Family BackgroundWilliam Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, to John and Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth, the second of their five children. His father was law agent and rent collector for Lord Lonsdale, and the family was fairly well off. He had four siblings, among whom, his sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. The three other siblings: Richard,John, and Christopher.All they have successful career.Life Experience In1770 William was born in Cockermouth, West Cumberland.His mother died when he was 8 and he was raised by his mother‘s family and eventually sent to Hawkshead GrammarSchool. In 1787，he attended Cambridge university, during which he created An Evening Walk.Life Experience In the summer of 1790 he took a walking tour through France.In 1791 he made a second visit to France and stayed there for a year to learn French language.In 1792 Wordsworth composed his most ambitious poem to date, the Descriptive Sketches.Wordsworth‘s stay in Paris, Orléans, and Blois proved decisive in three important respectsFirst, his understanding of politics at the time was slight, but his French experience was a powerful factor in turning his inbred sympathy for plain common people, among whom he had spent the happiest years of his life, into articulate radicalism.Finally, while Wordsworths political ideas and poetic talent were thus beginning to take shape, he fell passionately i