Analysis Of The Poems Of William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth is widely considered one of the most influential
English romantic poets. In the preface of his book, Lyrical Ballads,
published in 1798, Wordsworth declared that poetry should contain language
really used by men. This idea, and many of his others, challenged the old
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.... of whom thought of him only as a burden. It has been pointed out by
biographers that Wordsworth's unhappy early life contrasts with the
idealized portrait of childhood that he presents in his writings
(Wordsworth, William DISCovering).
Wordsworth went to college at St. John's College in Cambridge and
later wrote that the highlight of those years was his walking tour of
France and Switzerland taken with his friend, Robert Jones (Watson 1421).
He graduated in 1791 when the French revolution ....
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