FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Laodamia
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The Prelude
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Guide to the Lakes
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Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Prelude explores Wordsworth’s development into a poet, the power of nature, the disappointment of the French Revolution (which began in 1789), and various philosophical ideas about art and poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.” Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established early.
Detailed explanation-4: -A mountain by the lake grows far bigger than he thought it. He realises the monumental nature of the mountain and hurries back to shore, claiming that the experience has changed how he sees nature.
Detailed explanation-5: -The book written by William Wordsworth is ‘The Lyrical Ballads’. The Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.