William Wordsworth

出生: 07/04/1770 逝世: 23/04/1850 性别: Male 类型: Romantic poetry 职业: Poet Laureate

The work of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth was revolutionary in its day. Unlike the poets who had come before him and focussed on grand, moralising themes, Wordsworth believed that poetry should explore the purity and beauty of nature, and the deep human emotion inspired by the natural landscape, in particular that of the Lake District where he lived for many years. Wordsworth was horrified by the industrialisation of Britain and by the social injustices that came with modernisation – overcrowded cities, poverty, oppression – and his poetry was in many ways a wish to return to a simpler country life.

照片来源: William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon © National Portrait Gallery, London

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