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The Lake Poet The Lake Poets a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century . Main figures :William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge(柯勒律治), and Robert Southey The Brief Introduction of Wordsworth William Wordsworth(1770-1850) Bachelor of Arts . Graduated from St. John’s College , Cambridge . a major English Romantic poet . launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads . Influenced by Rousseau and the Great French Revolution (liberty, democracy) Against the darkness of the social reality and advocate beauty of nature. The Complex of Utopia of British Romanticism 英国浪漫主义乌托邦情结 1843 “Poet Laureate” Died by re-aggravating a case of pleurisy(胸膜炎 ) on 23,April 1850 Buried at St. Oswald’s church ?Wordsworth’s Childhood Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth, in the north of the lake country, the second child of a fairly prosperous attorney-at-law and of Anne Cookson. At age of 8, mother died .He was reproached and insulted by his grandparents , ?then came his father’s death, when the boy was thirteen . ?His Wanderings From Hawkshead, Wordsworth went to Cambridge in October, 1787 and remained there at St. John’s college for four years Bad performance in university. None was to his taste. The army, the church, the law, tutorial work, were all contemplated and discarded in turn. He showed no strong bent except for wandering and writing poetry. 1790 , he started for the Alps then to London , Switzerland and Italy 1791 He went to France Wordsworth’s Marriage In France , he cohabited with a French girl and had a daughter . Later he quit the relationship because of his uncle’s objection . 1802, he had married a Westmorland girl, Mary Hutchinson, in whom he found one of the greatest blessings of his life . Five children were born between 1803 and 1810, two of whom were to die almost simultaneously in 1812 . Death had already struck Wordsworth a bl