Poems by williams wordsworth full#

Although now generally considered the greatest poet of his age, at the time he would have been considered secondary to Keats, Scott and later Tennyson. He uses descriptive language such as lofty moon, encircling laurels, and dazzling sheen. In true Wordsworth fashion, this poem highlights the natural elements of the night. Minstrels would travel door to door, playing music and providing wishes for a great Christmas season. AUTHOR: When William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Coleridge in 1798, they launched the Romantic Age of English Literature. In this famous narrative poem, William Wordsworth (1770-1850), recounts a Christmas tradition.

Poems by williams wordsworth full#

His remarkable autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry. Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children.

He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. Discover our edit of the best poetry books. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. Here, we’ve picked some of our favourite William Wordsworth poems, from ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ to ‘The World is Too Much With Us’.