ABSTRACT
Wordsworth was a poet – one of the most revered England has produced – and a pioneer of the romantic movement. He was brought up in a Lakeland mansion and graduated in English at Cambridge University. The romantic movement idealized nature and placed emotion above rationalism and so lamented the loss of many forms of medieval art and thought to the Enlightenment and Industrialization. Wordsworth worked together closely with Coleridge, launching the romantic movement with their joint venture ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in 1798, which included one of his most revered works, ‘Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’. Like his great friend Coleridge, Wordsworth was a political radical as a young man and was inspired by the French Revolution and the republican liberalism of Rousseau. Despite the move towards social conservatism, Wordsworth maintains an eco-centric radicalism in the work.
