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The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth About the Author: |
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Answer» William Wordsworth born in his beloved lake district was the sop of an attorney. He went to school first at Pensith and then at Hawkshead grammer school before studying from 1787 at St.John’s College, Cambridge. Today Wordsworth’s poetry remains widely read. Its almost universal appeal is perhaps best explained by Wordsworth’s own words on the role, for him of poetry, what he called “the most philosophical of all writing” whose object is truth carried alive into the heart by passion. Wordsworth spent the winter of 1798 99 with his sister and Coleridge in Germany, where he wrote several poems including the enigmatic ‘Lucy’poems. Wordsworth’s second verse collection ‘In two volumes’ appeared in 1807. In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey (1774 – 1843) as England’s poet laureate. Wordsworth died on April 23, 1850. |
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