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  William Wordsworth Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years that was revised and expanded a number of times.
The second of five children, Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland—part of the scenic region in northwest England called the Lake District.
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets".
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 William Wordsworth: Tutte le informazioni su William Wordsworth su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wordsworth scrisse pochissime poesie riguardo alla sua infanzia.
Wordsworth era più interessato all’estetica che alla politica.
Sempre nel 1817,Coleridge pubblicò “Biographia Literaria” i cui dettagli richiamano i vecchi tempi in cui procurò a Wordsworth qualche fastidio.
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 Enciclopedia :: encyclopedia : William Wordsworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Nel 1793 Wordsworth esprimeva apertamente le proprie convinzioni politiche in A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (Lettera al vescovo di Falstaff), in cui sosteneva apertamente l'ateismo e la causa rivoluzionaria, lodando l’esecuzione di Luigi XVI di Francia.
Ma l’orientamento politico di Wordsworth era destinato a mutare: l’ascesa al potere di Napoleone, incoronato imperatore nel 1805 segnò l’inizio di un duro (e lungo) periodo di guerra con l’Inghilterra, stretta anche dalle tenaglie del “blocco continentale”.
Wordsworth, che proprio nella Francia aveva visto l’emblema della democrazia e della libertà, si sentì come tradito e cominciò a ripiegare gradualmente su posizioni moderate e infine conservatrici (soprattutto dal 1808 in poi), fino a riabbracciare la religione anglicana e la monarchia col Compromesso Vittoriano.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Wordsworth, William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life.
Wordsworth's earlier work shows the poetic beauty of commonplace things and people as in "Margaret," "Peter Bell," "Michael," and "The Idiot Boy." His use of the language of ordinary speech was heavily criticized, but it helped to rid English poetry of the more artificial conventions of 18th-century diction.
Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1771-1855, is known principally for her poems and for her journals, which have proved invaluable for later biographies and studies of the poet.
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"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Biography", Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994
"The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History", Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994
"he Wordsworth Book of Days", Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995
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