Excerpt from The Prelude - William Wordsworth

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context - Excerpt from The Prelude - William Wordsworth

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born and lived in the Lake District
autobiographical
one of the first Romantic poets
first collection of poems changed the way people thought about nature and was considered quite radical but became on of England’s most famous poets (Poet Laureate 1843)
written in blank verse
kept redrafting until finally published after his death, POSTHOMOUSLY when people began to appreciate nature due to Industrial Revolution
orphaned - mother died at 8 and lost father at school