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1、二零一二年英国文学第三讲补充材料March,2012PartIIntroductiononWilliamWordsworthWILLIAMWORDSWORTH1770—18501791—92:InFranceduringtheearlyperiodoftheRevolution.1797:Withhissister,Dorothy,AlfoxdenHouse,Somersetshire,nearColeridgeatNetherStowey.1798:FisteditionofLyricalBallads.1799:WilliamandDorothysettleatGrasmere
2、,intheLakeDistrict.1800:SecondeditionofLyricalBallads,intwovolumes,withthefamousPreface.1807:PoemsinTwoVolumes;endofthegreatdecade.WilliamWordsworthwasborninCokermouthinWestCumberland,justonthenorthernfringeoftheEnglishLakeDistrict.Whenhismotherdied,theeight-year-oldboywassenttoschoolatHawkshe
3、ad,nearEsthwaiteLake,intheheartofthatthinlysettledregionwhichheandColeridgeweretotransformintothepoeticcenterofEngland.WilliamandhisthreebrothersboardedinthecottageofAnneTyson,whogavetheboyssimplecomfort,ampleaffection,andfreedomtoroamthecountrysideatwill.Avigorous,unruly,andsometimesmoodyboy,
4、Williamspenthisfreedaysandoccasionally“halfthenight”inthesportsandramblesdescribedinthefirsttwobooksofthePrelude,“drinkingin”(touseoneofhisfavoritemetaphors)thenaturalsightsandsounds,andgettingtoknowthecottagers,shepherds,andsolitarywandererswhomovedthroughhisimaginationintohislaterpoem.Healso
5、foundtimetoreadvoraciouslyinthebooksownedbyhisyoungheadmaster,WilliamTaylor,whoencouragedhiminhisinclinationforpoetry.JohnWordsworth,thepoet’sfather,diedsuddenlywhenWilliamwasthirteen,leavingtohisfivechildrenmainlythesubstantialsumownedhimbyLordLonsdale,whomhehadservedasattorneyandasstewardoft
6、hehugeLonsdaleestate.Thatharshandlitigiousnoblemanmanagedtokeepfrompayingthedebtuntilhediedin1802.WordsworthwasneverthelessabletogouptoSt.John’sCollege,Cambridge,in1787,wherehefoundverylittleinthelimitedcurriculumofthattimetoappealtohim.Hetookhisdegreein1791withoutdistinction.Duringthesummervo
7、cationofhisthirdyearatCambridge,(1790),Wordsworthandhisclosestcollegefriend,theWelshman,RobertJones,journeyonfootthroughFranceandtheAlps(describedinThePrelude6)atthetimewhentheFrenchwerejoyouslycelebratingthefirstanniversaryofthefalloft