Later in life his contribution to English letters was recognized and accepted and he was vested with the poet laureateship of England. As he matured, he relaxed into the more conservative aspects of the philosophies that informed his ideals and wrote bucolically yet keenly about nature and the human condition. His poetry resonated with a new, tempered earnestness that he shaped and sculpted with his unprecedented notion that poetry should sound like everyday speech and embody more common “natural” themes, which distinguished his work markedly from all that preceded it, but also brought a great deal of negative criticism from the literary establishment of the day.
John’s College, Cambridge-Wordsworth completed an eye-opening, life-altering tour of France after which he became filled with the seeds of a zeitgeist that would lead to his influential ideas about verse altering its future forever. As a young artist-already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism.
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