W. Wordsworth
Romantic 1st generation
He was a nature poet of the Romantic period who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature.

 
Studies
He attended Hawkshead Grammar School,where his love for poetry established and later,after his father died he went to St. John’s College in Cambridge

 
Political /social ideas
He had democratic ideals and hoped for a social order in France.

 
Influences
His writing was influenced by nature and the death of his parents in his childhood.

 
Main work
The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times published by his widow after his death.

 
Theme/s
In his works we have the theme of nature,compared with men (pantheistic view) and childhood.

 
Other works
Preface, second edition of Lyrical Ballads, Manifesto of English Romanticism.

 
Style
“Simple and sincere as the language of everyday life” Narrative techniques
Use of imagination,that enables him to communicate his knowledge to others,recollections of emotions

 
Language
The language in his poems is simple,since he wanted his poems to be understood by other men “a man among men”