That floats on high o’er vales and hills, His political views evolved, becoming increasingly conservative. He was no longer the idealistic, radical young poet who supported the cries for social justice that sparked the French Revolution. Unfortunately, over the years, he feuded with Coleridge, three of his children died, one of his brothers, a ship’s captain, was drowned at sea, and Dorothy suffered a mental breakdown. In 1802, he married his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson and they settled into Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District and raised a happy family, which included the beloved aunt Dorothy. Wordsworth’s personal life was filled with joy and sorrow.
He also wrote scores of much-loved short lyric poems and sonnets. “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” and the autobiographical The Prelude are among his more famous long poems. With sufficient independent means, Wordsworth settled in to the life of a poet, gaining fame and recognition for his work over the years, culminating in 1842, when he was named England’s poet laureate. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” are among the most famous poems in this collection. It would prove to be a milestone in the history of English poetry, one of the books that ushered in the Romantic movement (from 1800 to 1850, approximately). Together, they produced a collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798. Two years later they moved again, this time to Somerset, to live near Wordsworth’s dear friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1795, Wordsworth received a legacy from a close relative, and he and his sister Dorothy went to live in Dorset. Wordsworth could not return and would not for many years. But in the wake of the French Revolution, which Wordsworth ardently supported, and the subsequent leadership of Napoleon, England and France were at war. Short of money, Wordsworth returned to England, planning to return to France as soon as he was able. In Blois, he met Annette Vallon, whom he hoped to marry. He studied French, and after he graduated, he went to France to gain fluency in the language. Wordsworth attended Cambridge University from 1787 to 1791. The five Wordsworth children were scattered and spent their childhood with different relatives. His mother died when he was just 8 and his father, a lawyer, died when Wordsworth was 13. William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth in Cumbria in northeast England, near the Lake District, whose natural beauty would inspire many of Wordsworth’s poems. Poetry 15 “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth (Regular Verse) Feature Unit: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616).Feature Poet: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).Feature Unit: The Poetry of World War I.Feature Unit: The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.25. An Anthology of Poems for Further Study
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