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1、"Wordsworth"redirectshere.Forotheruses,seeWordsworth(disambiguation).FortheScottishcomposer,seeWilliamWordsworth(composer).WilliamWordsworthPortraitofWilliamWordsworthbyBenjaminRobertHaydon(NationalPortraitGallery).Born(1770-04-07)7April1770Cockermouth,Cumberland,EnglandDied23April1850(1850-04-
2、23)(aged 80)Cumberland,EnglandOccupationPoetAlma materCambridgeUniversityLiterarymovementRomanticismNotableworksLyricalBallads,PoemsinTwoVolumes,TheExcursion,ThePrelude,IWanderedLonelyasaCloudWilliamWordsworth(7April1770 –23April1850)wasamajorEnglishRomanticpoetwho,withSamuelTaylorColeridge,hel
3、pedtolaunchtheRomanticAgeinEnglishliteraturewiththeirjointpublicationLyricalBallads(1798).Wordsworth'smagnumopusisgenerallyconsideredtobeThePrelude,asemiautobiographicalpoemofhisearlyyearsthatherevisedandexpandedanumberoftimes.Itwasposthumouslytitledandpublished,beforewhichitwasgenerallyknownas
4、"thepoemtoColeridge".[1]WordsworthwasBritain'sPoetLaureatefrom1843untilhisdeathin1850.RelationshipwithAnnetteVallon[edit]InNovember1791WordsworthvisitedRevolutionaryFranceandbecameenthralledwiththeRepublicanmovement.HefellinlovewithaFrenchwoman,AnnetteVallon,whoin1792gavebirthtotheirchild,Carol
5、ine.BecauseoflackofmoneyandBritain'stensionswithFrancehereturnedalonetoEnglandthenextyear.[8]ThecircumstancesofhisreturnandhissubsequentbehaviorraiseddoubtsastohisdeclaredwishtomarryAnnette,buthesupportedherandhisdaughterasbesthecouldinlaterlife.TheReignofTerrorestrangedhimfromRepublicanFrance,
6、andwarbetweenFranceandBritainpreventedhimfromseeingAnnetteandCarolineagainforseveralyears.WiththePeaceofAmiensagainallowingtraveltoFrance,in1802WordsworthandhissisterDorothyvisitedAnnetteandCarolineinCalais.ThepurposeofthevisitwastoprepareAnnetteforthefactofhisforthcomingmarriagetoMaryHutchinso
7、n.[8]Afterwardshewrotethesonnet"Itisabeauteousevening,calmandfree,"recallingaseasidewalkwiththenine-year-oldCaroline,whomhehadneverseenbeforethatvisit.MarywasanxiousthatWordsworthshoulddomoreforCarolineanduponCaroline'smarriage,in
