5/31/2023 0 Comments The lyrical balladsGuilt over the separation and disillusionment with the direction that the Revolution had taken drove Wordsworth to the brink of an emotional breakdown. They planned to wed, but lack of money forced Wordsworth to return to England in December 1792. He also became romantically involved with a Frenchwoman, Annette Vallon, who bore him an illegitimate daughter. In 1791 he traveled to France, where he became an ardent advocate of the French Revolution, then in its earliest and most idealistic stages. The initial poem, Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” concerns a supernatural curse the final one, Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” features a changing relationship to the natural world.Įvents in History at the Time of the Poemsįrom “Autumn” by James Thomson, a Poet of Sensibilityįrom “The Thorn” by William Wordsworth, a Romantic Poetīorn in West Cumberland, England, in 1770, William Wordsworth was educated at a local school in Hawkshead in the heart of the English Lake District, and later at St. By William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeĪ collection of 23 poems set in rural England during the late eighteenth century first published anonymously in 1798.Ĭonveyed through the poems are emotional responses to the natural and supernatural in conversational verse.
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