Wordsworth's representative works include "Lyric Ballads", "Beside Tintern Abbey", "Prelude", "She Lives in the Inaccessible Place" and "Narcissus".
Wordsworth was born in a lawyer's family and studied at St. John's College, Cambridge University. After graduation, he traveled to Europe and experienced the storm of the Revolution first-hand in France. After his father died in 1783, he and his brothers were taken care of by his uncle, while his sister Dorothy was raised by her maternal grandparents. Dorothy was closest to him.
In 1787, he entered St. John's College, Cambridge University. After graduating from college, he went to France and lived in Blois. He was enthusiastic about the French Revolution, believing that this revolution showed the perfection of human nature and would save the people who were in dire straits under the imperial system. In Blois he met many moderate Girondins.
About the author
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), a British romantic poet, was once the poet laureate. His poetic theory shook the dominance of British classical poetics and effectively promoted the innovation of British poetry and the development of the Romantic movement.
He is one of the most important English poets since the Renaissance. His poem "plain living and high thinking" is used as the motto of Keble College, Oxford University.