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William Wordsworth

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads (1798) which marked the development of a new type of poetry dealing with feeling and imagination. For most of his life he lived in the Lake District and the main theme of his extensive poetry was man's relation to nature. His masterpiece is commonly considered to be 'The Prelude' (1850), a long verse-autobiography that includes Wordsworth's journey through revolutionary France in 1791 – 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!' He abandoned his early republicanism and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1843.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

William Wordsworth

Date

c.1850

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 217.2 x W 133.4 cm

Accession number

104

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1860. On long-term loan to Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum, Cumbria

Work type

Painting

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