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Teacher presentation for sophomores.TRANSCRIPT
Wordsworth and
Romanticism
Wordsworth’s Life• born in 1770 • English Lake District.• when he was 8, his
mother died. • his father died, when
William was 13
Cockermouth, Cumbria
Wordsworth’s Earliest House
Home Life
• father was an estate manager
• The family lived well
View of the kitchen and fine china
William’s Schooling
• local Grammar school
• poetry
Undergraduate YearsUndergraduate Years
• St John’s College, Cambridge • In the summer of 1790• landscape & Revolution
The Savoie region of the Alps, through which Wordsworth and Jones traveled in the summer of 1791
The French Alps
Settling in England
• average quality degree
• anti-Monarchist ideas.
• Annette Vallon• War
Dove Cottage, Wordsworth’s home from 1799-1809
• Dorothy• Mary
Hutchinson• Home
Wordsworth’s Mature Years
• the Lake District • Poet Laureate • Died in 1850
Society and Influences
• a reaction to the world
• the Industrial Revolution and Nature
• Lyrical Ballads, with Coleridge, in 1798.
• a break with the Renaissance
His Own Poetry
• focus = the simple miracle of perception and experience.
• “thought long and deeply.”• vivid, direct images and
descriptions.• lyrical blank verse
London, 1802
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,Have forfeited their ancient English dower 5Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;Oh! raise us up, return to us again;And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: 10Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,So didst thou travel on life's common way,In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heartThe lowliest duties on herself did lay.
I Wandered Lonely as a CloudI wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
5 Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line
10 Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
15 A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed---and gazed---but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie 20 In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
The Romantics’ InfluenceI wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
William Wordsworth
(Poetical Works 311)
Born a poor young country boy--Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.
Sit beside a mountain stream--see her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.
Find me in my field of grass--Mother Nature's son
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun.
Paul McCartney
(Beatles 376)
Wordsworth’s Legacy
• the start of the Romantic movement.• rural life is considered to be a haven • celebrated the immediate, the
emotional and the personal • a valuing of personal experience and
reaction • His contemporaries: Coleridge, Byron,
Keats, and Shelley
WorksWorks Cited Page“Cambridge 2000: St. John’s College: First Court: chapel.” Cambridge 2000: photos
of Cambridge, England. 1/8/07. www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/0009/P911249.html. 1/10/07.
“county map of England.” Pictures of England.com.
http://www.picturesofengland.com/mapofengland/counties-map.html. 2/18/09.
Fraistat, Neil et al. “Lyrical Ballads – London 1798 – Full Text.” Lyrical Ballads: an
electronic scholarly edition. www.dal.ca/~etc/lballads/London98/frames.html. 1/10/07.
“Graveyard at Oswald Church.” Poets’ Graves. http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/wordsworth.htm. 2/18/09.
“Wordsworth and the Romantics.” The Wordsworth Trust. www.wordsworth.org.uk/Default.asp?page=16. 1/10/07.
Sources I cannot cite because they are from a British Internet site that Mr. Shaw was a member of
… sorry! Don’t use this as an example of what you should do http://www.btinternet.com/~lake.district/cm/wordhse.htmhttp://www.btinternet.com/~lake.district/wilword.htm