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Name :- Mansi R Parmar
Roll No :- 16
Paper No :- 5 The Romantic Literature
Presentation Topic :- Wordsworth as a Nature Poet
Enrolment No :- 2069108420170024
M A English Semester – 2
Batch Year :- 2016 -18
Submitted to :- Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Introduction Major English romantic
poet .
Born in 7 th April , 1770 in England .
Continued his studies at Cambridge university .
He made his debut as a writer in 1787 , when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine .
Same year he entered St. john’s college , Cambridge , from where he took his B.A in 1791 .
Wordsworth composed his master work , Lyrical Ballads which opened with Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner ”
In 1798 , he started to writer a large and philosophical autobiographicalPoem .
In 1791 he visited France . There he fell in love with a French women Annet Vallon . And they had a child Caroline .
His father died , when William was 13 .
Primary education his mother taught him to read and write .
He died due to pleurisy on April 23, 1850 and is buried at St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere .
An Evening Walk (1793)
Descriptive Sketches (1793)
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
The Excursion (1814)
The Prelude (1850)
Major works
Wordsworth as a
nature
poet
s
Who is the poet ?
From the preface to Lyrical Ballads “ What is a poet ? … He is a men speaking to men : a man endued with more lively sensibility who has a greater knowledge of human nature , and a more comprehensive soul , then are supposed to be common among mankind ” .
Nature poet
Portrayed every aspect of nature Presented nature as it is , with truthfulness With insight , describing hidden meaning in nature (not surface description ) Sense of spirit – life in nature Nature as teacher
Daffodils By William Wordsworth
