william wordsworth :
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) Wordsworth along with Coleridge and Southey belonged to the first generation of the Romantic poets. Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 at Cockermouth on the Derwent in the Cumberland highlands of Lake District. By the age of fourteen he had become an orphan. His school days at Hawkshead, in his own words. "were very happy one, chiefly betause I was left at liberty then, and in the vacations, to read whatever books I liked ." Here he received his early impression "derived neither from books nor from companions, but from the majesty and loveliness of scenes around him... loved with the first heats of youth."
He spent his first summer vacation at Hawkshead where "after a night spent in dancing, I was deeply moved by a splendid sunrise." Speaking of this experience, he says in The Prelude : "Ah! need I say, dear friend! that to the brim My heart was full : I made no vows, but vows Were then made for me; bond unknown to me Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly A dedicated spirit." But he 'id not relish the petty restrictions of University life and atmosphere of St. John's College, Cambridge, and felt like "a fowl of the air, ill-tutored for captivity." His days at the University are well documented in The Prelude. After obtaining his B.A. degree in 1791, Wordsworth went to live for some months in London where the muititudes of the huge city brought him a vison of totality - human sympathies into his thoughts of Nature - and made him recognize " the unity of man," the unity of life. In 1791 Wordsworth went to France to learn French in order to fulfil his cherished idea of becoming a touring tutor. There, like so many of his generation, he was very enthusiastic about the Revolution of 1789 and the revolutionaries. In particular he was charmed by the personality of Michael de Beaupuis whom he met at Blois in 1792, His influence revealed to him the power and potentiality of man to attain "rational liberty, and hope in Mind, Justice and peace." At Blois he fell in love with Annette Vallon. He did not marry her, but she bore him a daughter. He was compelled to return to England because his guardians in England threatened to cut off his allowances.
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