William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born in 1770. Initially, Wordsworth was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution. While he sympathized with the French, ultimately his loyalties remained with the English and he became disillusioned by the war once England was drawn into it. Annette Vallon was a Frenchwoman with whom Wordsworth fathered a daughter. Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, in 1802. Wordsworth’s "two consciousnesses" represent the poet in two stages of his life; one is …

…an element of simplicity in his works, again a characteristic of the Romantic Era. In the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", he celebrates the simple act of coming upon a field of daffodils. "When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze". These are some characteristics of the Romantic Era that are apparent in Wordsworth’s poetry