Wordsworth and Coleridge
Thinking activity : Wordsworth and Coleridge Hello Readers, William Wordsworth : Born: 7 April 1770, Cockermouth, United Kingdom Died: 23 April 1850, Rydal Mount, United Kingdom Poems: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Prelude, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, more Education: Hawkshead Grammar School, University of Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge William Wordsworth was an English poet, a key figure of Romanticism, and the author of the most famous poem ever written about daffodils. Born in 1770, Wordsworth and his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge invented a new style of poetry in which nature and the diction of the common man trumped formal, stylized language. Their seminal 1798 poetry collection, Lyrical Ballads, helped to launch the Romantic era of English literature, in which writers sought to unite the tranquility of nature and the inner emotional world of men. Even in the nineteenth century, Wordsworth felt ...
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