William Wordsworth And The Myth Of Nature By William Wordsworth

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Williams Wordsworth was born in April seventh, seventeen seventy. Alongside Samuel Taylor launched the Romantic era in English literature. He brought many greats poems into the world but one of his most famous works was the “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798 and his poem the “Myth of Nature” representing his ”growth” of his mind to maturity. Even though he was seen as a great man, because of his simple language in his works, his poems were deemed vulgarity. He was a brilliant man who attended Cambridge University in London and faced many trials since his father died when he was thirteen. He decided to move back to France later on to become a trivalent tutee. Were he actually ended meeting one of the loves of his life Annette Vallon and had a beautiful …show more content…
He had a rough child hood, he was bullied in school. Cause of this he vowed war against injustice and apprehension. “I then controlled my tears, my heart grew calm and was I was meek and bold”. He had harsh thoughts on the concept of marriage, stating that it is a degrading and tyrannical social institution. Then ironically married Harriet Westbrook. He did not find comfort in religion and was known as in atheist, a revolutionist and a hibertine. Shelley’s life was definitely not the easiest sadly after a bunch of family issues, he was denied rights to his two children. A girl and boy, Clara and William who later died in Italy. After the divorce of his first wife Harriet Westbrook Shelly remarried to Mary Wollstonecraft. Who later had four more children, but three of the four died either prematurely or after child birth, leaving his only son, Percy Florence Shelley. Through these troubles in his life he was able to construct his best works from these dastardly experiences like one of his famous works “Mutability”. “Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like hers nought may endure but mutability” (Percy Bysshe Shelley). Meaning nothing can ever be the same from what has happened. He slowly started going insane, stopped listening to others, and not listening is what cost him his life in the end. He later died in eighteen twenty-two when his boat sunk in a …show more content…
She was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatic, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. She was best known for her gothic novel “Frankenstein”, the modern Prometheus. He father “William Godwin” was a political philosopher, her mother “Mary Wollstonecraft was also a philosopher, but was also a feminist and an activist for women’s rights. After the death of her mother, her father Godwin took her with him and later one of her neighbors became her new stepmom. She married a Percy Bysshe Shelley in eighteen- sixteen. She spent a lot of her time editing her husband’s work who was a romantic poet and philosopher. She of course like most women got pregnant, but sadly her daughter died pre maturely. By eighteen-sixteen she tried for more kids since the death of her baby. She managed to have two, but just as the world is cruel they both died before giving birth, leaving him with only one surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In eighteen twenty-two her husband drowned when his sailboat sunk during a storm. A year later she returned to England and devoted herself to taking care of her son and continued her career as a professional author. The last decade of her life she was sick and later died of a brain tumor at the age of fifty-three in eighteen fifty-one. Until the nineteen seventies she was known mainly for her efforts to publish her husband’s work and her novels. Mary Shelley’s work often

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