William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born in...

• the English Lake District

• London

• Cambridge

• Grasmere

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How did the French Revolution inspire Wordsworth?

• It offered a "glorious renovation" of society.

• He hoped to see similar revolution in England.

• It offered a new perspective into an outdated social structure.

• It inspired his poetic creativity.

Who is William Wordsworth?

• He is best known for Lyrical Ballads.

• He was an American poet.

• He was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England.

• He was an English playwright, poet, and actor.

Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northern England.

• True

• False

Wordsworth studied at

• Oxford

• Cambridge

Poems in Two Volumes was published in

• 1807

• 1803

In the Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge composed

• 4 poems

• 2 poems

He saw Nature as

• under men's power

• an uncontrollable force

Nature is the main source of

• tranquillity

• joy

The genuine feeling has to be refined through

• memory

• reason