He lived most of his life there dying on Apin his home Rydal Mount, Ambleside, between Grasmere and Rydal Water.
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William Wordsworth was born Apin Cockermouth, located in the Lake District in northwestern England, a beautiful area full of sheep, stone walls, gorgeous scenery, mountains, lakes, and rivers. Agnes Haigh Widder, Humanities Bibliographer Libraries’ Murray and Hong Special Collections.
Many of us know, or remember, from high school or college English his famous poem about daffodils called “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” On display here are some of his works in M.S.U. He became England’s poet laureate upon the death of Robert Southey in 1843. As the Romantic movement developed and more people could read who identified with his subjects, his fame grew. He constantly revised his poems, even after publication he tinkered with his words whenever new editions came out. He wrote mostly poetry, and a little nonfiction. Wordsworth completed his best writing by the time he was in his forties.
His work and that of his friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, mark the beginning of the Romantic period in English literature. Such writing was avant garde in early 19th-century English literature and literary critics attacked him unmercifully. He claimed the power of poetry to foster human betterment. His work has a sense of completeness, an acquiescence in the natural cycle of life culminating in the inevitability of death. His are simple tales about simple people simply told, those of genuinely ordinary people of the Lake country, such as schoolmasters and shepherd boys living their obscure lives, accepting and enduring their sufferings with quiet dignity. His writing focuses on the lives, customs, and language of ‘low and rustic life’ because this is where the ‘primary laws of our nature’ can be found to operate most clearly, untainted by the superficialities of society. William Wordsworth believed poetry should teach, honoring the primary human affections and reflecting the essentials of human experience.
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