The world Is Too Much With Us

The world Is Too Much With Us 

Introduction :-

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major romantic poet ,based  in the Lake district, England .His poems are frequently inspired by the beauty of nature and he is known as one of the greatest English poets .

He was born in 7 April , 1770 in Cockermouth ,in northwest  England .His father John Wordsworth , introduce the young William to the great poetry of  Milton and Shakespeare , but he was frequently absent  during  William's childhood .Wordsworth was brought up by the his mother's parents in Penrith , but this was not a happy period .He felt frequently in  conflict  with his relations and at times contemplated ending his life . However ,as a child ,he  did develop a great love of nature , spending may  hours  walking in the  fells of the Lake District . He also became very close to his sister , Dorothy , who would later become a poet a poet in her own right .

In 1778 , William was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire ; this separated him from his sister for nearly nine years .In 1787 , he entered St . John's College , Cambridge . It was in this year  that  he had his first  published  work , a sonnet in the European Magazine .Whilst still a student at Cambridge , in 1790 , he travelled to revolutionary France , He was deeply  impressed by the  revolutionary spirit and principles of liberty and legality . He also fell in love with a french women , Annette Vallon ; they had an illegitimate daughter ,Anne Caroline .

After graduating form Cambridge he returned to France , where his daughter was born in 1792 . However despite  expressing a desire to marry , Wordsworth left France  alone, leaving his partner and daughter in France .At the time ,there was growing political tension between France and Great Britain  .Also Words worth became  increasingly estranged from the French Revolution ; in the Reign of Terror, he saw the revolutionary principles betrayed .Wordsworth  was unable to return ot France until 1802 ,when the political situation  improved .Wordsworth sought to maintain his financial obligations to his daughter , but also kept his illigitimate daughter hidden from the public gaze .

After graduating Wordsworth was fortunate to receive a legacy of $900 from Raisley  Calvert to pursue a career in literature . He was able  to publish his first collection of poems , An Evening Wald and Descriptive sketches , That year he was also to meet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset .they became close friends and collaborated on poetic ideas .the later published  a joint work ( lyrical Ballard's (1798 ) , and Wordsworth greatest work ' The Prelude ' was initially called by Wordsworth 'to Coleridge '.

This period was important for Wordsworth and also the direction of English poetry . with Coleridge , Wordsworth helped create a much more spontaneous and emotional poetry . It sought to grasp at the beauty of nature and the quintessential depth of human emotion . In the preface to Lyrical Ballard's , Wordsworth say of poetry : " the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility ."

Lyrical Ballard's includes some of his best known poems ," Lines composed A Few Miles above T -intern Abbey ", " A Slumber Did my spirit seal ".

 A  SLUMBER did my spirit seal ;
I had no human fears :
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years .
No motion  has she now ,no force
She neither hears nor sees ;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course ,
With rocks ,and stones ,and trees .

In  1802 , after returning from a brief visit to see his  daughter , Wordsworth married a childhood friend ,Mary Hutchinson , Dorothy continued to live with the couple and she became close to Mary as well as her brother William and Mary had five children, though three died early .

In 1807  ,  he published another important volume o poetry " poems , in Two Volumes " , this included famous poems such as ; " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ", " my Heart Leaps Up " , " Ode : Intimations of Immortality "
 I Wandered ; lonely as a cloud
That  floats on high o ' er vales and hills ,
When all at I saw a crowd
A host , of golden daffodils ;

In  1813 , he received an appointment as Distributor of stamps for Westmorland ; this annual income of $ 400 gave  him greater financial security and enabled him to devote his spare time to poetry . In 1813 , he family also moved into Rydal Mount , Grasmere ; a pictoresque location which inspired his later poetry .

By the 1820 s , the critical acclaim for Wordsworth was growing ,though ironically critics note that , from this period, his poetry  began losing some of its vigour  and emotional intensity . His poetry was  perhaps a reflection of his won ideas .the 1790 s  had been a period of his life , his disillusionment with the French revolution had made him more conservative in outlook. In 1839 he received an honorary degree from Oxford University and received a civil pension of $ 300 a year from the government . In 1843 , he was persuaded to become the nation's poet laureate , despite saying  he wouldn't write any poetry as poet laureate .Wordsworth  is the only poet Laureate who never wrote poetry during his time as poet Laureate .

Wordsworth  bed of pleurisy on 23  April 1850 . He was buries in St Oswald's  church Grasmere ,After his death widow Mary , published his autobiographical 'poem to Coleridge " under the title " the Prelude ".

An original poet for may different artistic virtues , Wordsworth's personality and conscience made him the perfect father for a literary movement that would resound philosophically to this day Romanticism ,defined by it predisposition towards nature and its deep emotional connection to the feelings of  the poet ,philosophically finds itself represented perfectly by Wordsworth 's   " The world is  Too much with Us ".By capturing the spiritual dissatisfaction may of us can feel when fulfilling painting in rhyme a romantic collage of a fantastic pagan past Wordsworth's " The World is Too Much
with Us  " can be easily argued as one of Wordsworth's most popular works of Romanticism .

Wordsworth defined poetry as the " spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ," intense " emotion recollected in tranquility , " In the sonnet " The materialism and " making it . " because we are insensitive to the richness of Nature ,we may be forfeiting our souls .To us there is nothing wonderful or mysterious about the natural world , but  ancients who were pagans created a colorful mythology out of their of Nature .