William Wordsworth Research Paper

In regards to Wordsworth, to some it is hard to tell whether he was entirely original, or whether his close relation to coleridge was the cause of some of his unoriginality or made him entirely unoriginal. The two well known poets are credited with making a new style of poetry. One that focused on poetry that reunited readers with true emotions and feelings. This is called Romanticism and Wordsworth was the quintessential figure of it.

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland in England. William died on the 23rd of April, 1850, at the age of eighty. He was the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson. William became close to his sister Dorothy and stayed close with her

He did not excel there, but managed to graduate in 1791. His family was a well accomplished one, his oldest brother becoming a lawyer, another of his brothers a captain of his own ship, which he died on, and his youngest brother entered the church and rose to be Master of Trinity College in Cambridge. William’s father was a legal representative for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale. They lived in a mansion in their small town and because of his father’s business he was away from home frequently. William was taught to read by his mother; his father encouraged him in his readings and allowed him to use his library. While only being taught the Bible and the Spectator in the small school he attended the rest of his learning was done at home. While in school he met the woman who later would became his wife, Mary

In Note to ‘Ancient Mariner’ he criticized some of Coleridge’s stylistic approaches. This criticism proves that Wordsworth and Coleridge were not completely compatible, and it points out how Coleridge developed his own independent poetic diction, regardless of whether or not Wordsworth approved. This showing that William Wordsworth, at least from an outsider's view, had a much larger influence on Coleridge than he did on William.

In regards to Wordsworth, to some it is hard to tell whether he was entirely original, or whether his close relation to Coleridge was the cause of some of his originality or made him entirely unoriginal. However one may be inclined to believe he was in fact entirely original or as original as anyone could be. Wordsworth had assistance from Coleridge and admired his work but at the same time was very different. He criticized Coleridge’s work and Coleridge did the same to him explaining just how different their work was and how the other’s work had great