William Wordsworth - Life and Work Quiz

Answer: A "Lake poet"

The "Lake Poets" lived in the English Lake District at the turn of the 18th to 19th century. The Lake District is in Cumbria and if you thought all the U.K.'s high hills were in Scotland and Wales, go there. They were a group who followed no particular line of poetic thinking or practice, though they did share some ideas.

Answer: John Keats

There were only three poets in the "Lake school". John Keats was Wordsworth's contemporary but NOT a "Lake poet".

Answer: The Romantic Age

Wordsworth was profoundly influenced by the French Revolution in 1789 but the increasing post-revolutionary violence, the continued use of the guillotine rapidly moved him away from revolutionary change and in the direction of inner, personal change.

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in English literature. The book was a joint venture between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, neo-classicist forms of eighteenth century English poetry.

Answer: Lyrical Ballads

'Tintern Abbey' was a poem written by Wordsworth and included in the 1798 edition of "Lyrical Ballads".
'The Prelude - or Growth of a Poet's Mind' is an autobiographical poem in blank verse. The first version of the poem was written when he was 28, and Wordsworth worked on it for the rest of his long life without publishing it.

'Kubla Khan' is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797.

Answer: Yes. He married Mary Hutchinson and they had five children

Annette Vallon was a lover he knew in France in his pre-marital revolutionary days.

Answer: Alexander Pope

William Wordsworth and his school redefined poetry by rewriting its past. They considered the neo-clasicist Pope as a poet of reason and imitation. Rather than using the style and technique of Roman poets as a model, poetry should come 'from within the poet'.

Answer: Wordsworth succeeded Southey as English Poet Laureate

William Wordsworth, his poetic inspiration dried up, succeeded Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843. Born in 1770, Wordsworth lived till 1850.

Answer: Yes, He graduated from Cambridge University in 1791

Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland in 1770. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, graduated in 1791 and then travelled abroad, particularly in France.

Answer: Both "An Evening Walk " and "Descriptive Sketches"

These were written in the style of the 18th century.