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    William was born at Cocker mouth in the Lake District and educated at Hawshead Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge.  After leaving Cambridge, he spent a year in France was passionately in sympathy with the revolution led to totalitarians government and wars of conquest.

    In 1793, he published Descriptive Sketches and An Evening Walk.  These works show his life long love of natural beauty, but are written in a conventional and artificial style.  However, during the next five years, in association with his friend, Coleridge, Wordsworth developed his own original immensely valuable theories concerning poetry and poetic style.  The result was the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, which contained The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, but was made up other wise, of poems by Wordsworth.  Wordsworth as a poet and critic introduced a new conception of poetic style, insisting that the plain language of common speech was a fit medium for the poet.    

    From 1808 to 1835, after which he published nothing new, Wordsworth wrote copiously, but his old greatness was less frequently displayed.  Although, there was an undeniable falling off in his powers in these later years, his reputation and influence grew steadily, his earlier poems becoming more and more admired.He was buried in Grasmere, in his beloved Lake District, which he had made his home since 1799.
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    Saadia 

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