Life history of william wordsworth tintern
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William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
"Wordsworth" redirects here. For other uses, see Wordsworth (disambiguation).
For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). For the British academic and journalist in India, see William Christopher Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge".
Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and w
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William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in the small town of Cockermouth, in the county of Cumberland in England. The second of five children, he spent much of his childhood defined by his mother’s death at the age of eight. This first tragedy affected his emotional and psychological growth, as seen in most poetry.
Brought up by his father, an attorney of James Lowther, Wordsworth was sent to read many books. His father’s library exposed him to Milton, Shakespeare, and Spenser, which made him develop an interest in literature. His education was then transferred to Hawkshead Grammar School, where he nurtured his poetic skills.
Wordsworth entered St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1787. While at Cambridge, he spent his holidays on walking tours, where he saw natural scenery that he would later incorporate into his poems. In 1790, he went on a walking tour of Europe, France, Switzerland, and Italy, which enhanced his love for nature.
Wordsworth’s time in revolutionary France in
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Romantic Tintern
The abbey ruins lay forgotten until the 18th century. Then something wild and romantic began to stir in British hearts.
Tintern was about to experience a second heyday – this time as a major tourist destination. A popular engraving by the Buck brothers, published in 1732, started the ball rolling. It was followed by the Reverend William Gilpin’s bestselling account of his Wye River voyage in 1770.
He described Tintern as ‘the most beautiful’ scene of all – although he felt there was room for improvement. ‘A number of gable-ends hurt the eye with their regularity and disgust it bygd the vulgarity of their shape,’ he wrote, suggesting a mallet might komma in handy.
Nevertheless the ivy-covered ruins of Tintern were caught up in a surge of romantic interest in the ‘Sublime’ and the ‘Picturesque’. Travellers kept out of Europe bygd the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars were roaming the wild landscapes of Britain instead.
They flocked to the Wye Valley, arriving on s