William Wordsworth – Life and Works

In the history of the literary world, the man to be called The Nature Poet is William Wordsworth. He is a great worshipper of nature. According to his readers, Wordsworth is a Romanticist inspired by the nature. He conceived nature as a living personality and he believed that nature is a source of consolation and joy.

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one of its most central figures and important intellects. He is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”

During his lifetime, Wordsworth’s poems are estimated around 387.

Here’s the list of William Wordsworth’s Major Works:

• Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)
  • “Simon Lee”
  • “We are Seven“
  • “Lines Written in Early Spring“
  • “Expostulation and Reply“
  • “The Tables Turned“
  • “The Thorn”
  • “Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey“
• Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800)
  • Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
  • “Strange fits of passion have I known“
  • “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways“
  • “Three years she grew”
  • “A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal“
  • “I travelled among unknown men”
  • “Lucy Gray“
  • “The Two April Mornings”
  • “The Solitary Reaper“
  • “Nutting“
  • “The Ruined Cottage”
  • “Michael”
  • “The Kitten at Play”
• Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
  • “Resolution and Independence“
  • “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Also known as “Daffodils”
  • “My Heart Leaps Up“
  • “Ode: Intimations of Immortality“
  • “Ode to Duty“
  • “The Solitary Reaper“
  • “Elegiac Stanzas“
  • “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802“
  • “London, 1802“
  • “The World Is Too Much with Us“

• “French Revolution” (1810)
• Guide to the Lakes (1810)
• “To the Cuckoo“
• The Excursion (1814)
• Laodamia (1815, 1845)
• The White Doe of Rylstone (1815)
• Peter Bell (1819)
• Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1822)
• The Prelude (1850)

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was definitely one of the pillars of English Literature. He wrote so many awe-inspiring works that inspired his readers.

“That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” – William Wordsworth

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