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1.AbouttheAuthorBiographyLiteraryStylesandThemes2.AboutHisworksRepresentativeWorksBeforeReadingWriter’sIdeasWriter’sTechniquesLanguageProficiencyFurtherExploration

BiographyWilliamWordsworth(1770-1850)wasarepresentativeEnglishpoetofearlyRomanticismandthefocalpoeticvoiceoftheperiod.ThemostimportantcontributionofWilliamWordsworthisthathenotonlystartedthemodernpoetryofthegrowinginnerself,butalsochangedthecourseofEnglishpoetrybyusingordinaryspeechofthelanguageandbyadvocatingareturntonature.1.AbouttheAuthor

Biography1.AbouttheAuthorHonours:WilliamWordsworth,SamuelTaylorColeridgeandRobertSoutheywerecalled“theLakePoets”.Withthedeathin1843ofRobertSouthey,WordsworthbecamethePoetLaureate.Hisline“plainlivingandhighthinking”hasbeenadoptedasthemottoofKebleCollegeattheUniversityofOxford.

LiteraryStylesandThemesTheoryofpoetry:Poetryisthespontaneousoverflowofpowerfulfeelings:ittakesitsoriginfromemotionrecollectedintranquility.Theme:WilliamWordsworthisregardedasa“worshipperofnature”.Wordsworth?sees?the?world?freshly,sympathetically?and?naturally.Wordsworththinksthatcommonlifeistheonlysubjectofliteraryinterest.Hebreakswithtradition,seekinghissubjectsinthesmallhappeningsofcountrylifeandthetalkofcountrymen,children,anddoingsandfeelingsofhumblepeople,andemotionfromhisinnerheart.Language:?He?sticks?to?emphasizing?the?purest?by?simplest?words.1.AbouttheAuthor

RepresentativeWorks2.AboutHisWorksWordsworth’searliestpoetrywaspublishedin1793inthecollectionsAnEveningWalkandDes