![]() ![]() Indeed, it is the latter part of Wordsworth's life that galls. In the early version of "The Prelude," Wordsworth's long autobiographical poem, are some prophetic lines in Book XI "The days gone by/Come back upon me from the dawn almost/Of life: the hiding-places of my power/Seem open I approach, and then they close /I see by glimpses now when age comes on,/May scarcely see at all." In the late 1790s, William, Dorothy and Coleridge roamed the West Country downs, traveled in Germany and settled finally in the Lake District, where William was to live most of the rest of his life. After his studies at Cambridge and travels abroad, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy, first in Dorset and then in Somerset. Wordsworth and this three brothers and sister, Dorothy, were orphaned early, then denied the money owed them by the erratic and eccentric first Earl of Lonsdale, for whom their father had worked as steward and legal and political agent. He returned to England and between 17, wrote his greatest poetry - poetry that deflected forever the course of English literature by employing "a selection of language really used by men." He traveled extensively in France, fell in love with Annette Vallon, and fathered an illegitimate daughter, Caroline. ![]() ![]() Politically, in the early 1790s, he was swept into the maelstrom of the French Revolution. He was a poet of intense and sometimes mystical sensitivity. William Wordsworth's early Romantic credentials are superb. ![]()
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