William Wadsworth

by Stephen Hebron

Book Overview

Poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was the leader of the Romantic movement in British literature. He was strongly influenced by the ideology of the French Revolution and by the landscape of Britain's Lake Country, where he lived for most of his life. Among his most famous poems are "Tintern Abbey" (published in Lyrical Ballads, which he wrote with his friend and colleague Samuel Taylor Coleridge), "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "The Solitary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195215605
• ISBN13: 9780195215601
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9