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The Lamb
From Songs of Innocence
Little Lamb, who made thee
Does thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed
By the stream & o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing woolly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice
Making all the vales rejoice:
Little Lamb who made thee
Does thou know who made thee
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by His name,
Little Lamb God bless thee,
Little Lamb God bless thee.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770–1850), born on April 7, 1770, was the second of five children of an estate manager. He lost his mother when he was eight and his father died five years later. The children were separated and raised by guardian uncles. The boys were sent to a village in the heart of the Lake District. Wordsworth received a good education in classics, literature, and mathematics, but the chief advantage to him there was a beautiful countryside and boyhood pleasures of living and playing in the outdoors. In 1787 Wordsworth entered Cambridge. While still a university student he went on a three-month walking tour of France, the Swiss Alps and Italy. When he finished his degree he returned to France for a year and became a passionate supporter of the democratic ideals of the French Revolution. During his stay in France Wordsworth had a love affair with Annette Vallon who bore him a daughter, Caroline. Financial problems forced him to return to England. Wordsworth was unable to rejoin Annette and his daughter due to the outbreak of hostilities between England and France. He was sickened by the war between France and England and gradually became deeply disillu-sioned about his hopes for change. When Wordsworth returned from France in 1793, he was reu-nited with his sister Dorothy, who became his con-stant companion. They lived in a small village in Dorset. The col-lapse of his radical hope of perfecting society drove Wordworth to poetry. He published his first two books of verse, which received little notice from either the critics or the public. Two events then changed his life forever: he inherited a sum of money which covered his daily necessities and, in 1795, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet with similar political and literary views. Wordsworth and Dorothy moved to a comfortable country house four miles from the village where Coleridge lived, and Coleridge suddenly burst upon their lives.
This friendship had a lasting impact on both poets. Together they read, wrote, discussed political issues, exchanged theories on poetry and commented on each other's work. Coleridge had a broad philo-sophic mind, and Wordsworth the steady diligence of a writer. Lyrical Ballads (1798) was the fruit of their friendship and mutual influence. Coleridge contributed four poems and Wordsworth nineteen to the collection. Later that year Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and Coleridge travelled to Germany. Coleridge continued his studies in philosophy, while Wordsworth wrote several of his finest lyrical poems and started to work on The Prelude (1850), an autobiographical poem which he continued to revise throughout the rest of his life. The poem describes the crucial experiences and stages of the poet's life and is an introspective account of his emotional and spiritual development. Many critics consider the long poem The Prelude, published posthumously in twenty-four books, to be Wordsworth’s greatest achievement. In 1800 a second edition of the Lyrical Ballads appeared with Wordsworth’s new poems and a prose Preface illustrating his principles of poetry. The Lyrical Ballads was one of the most wonderful literary collaborations, but it could not survive the real differences between the two men. Wordsworth’s ability eventually provoked Content Coleridge’s envy, and Wordsworth could not endure watching Cole-ridge waste his talents in indecision and become a drug addict. Coleridge was experiencing serious health problems and the two became estranged and never fully reconciled.
William and Dorothy moved to Grasmere, one of the loveliest villages in the Lake District, a region which Wordsworth immortalised in his poetry. In 1802 Wordsworth married a childhood friend and together they had five children. During this period he produced Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), a collection which includes some of his finest verse and most famous sonnets. His reputation began to grow and his work became increasingly popular. As his fame as a poet grew, Wordsworth became more conservative in his political views. He was given a well-paid government job and openly campaigned for the conservative Tory party. As Wordsworth advanced in age his poetic vision grew weaker and his output was largely uninspired and written in the elevated and artificial style against which he had once rebelled. The younger generation of Romantic poets criticised him for abandoning the idealism and passion of his youth. In 1840 Wordsworth was awarded a government pension and the title of Poet Laureate, in recognition of his contribution to English literature. He died in 1850, a few days after his eightieth birthday. Wordsworth is frequently thought of as a nature poet. He believed nature could elevate the human soul and exert a positive moral influence on human thoughts and feelings. Wordsworth’s poetry celebrates the lives of simple rural people, whom he sees as being more sincere than people living in cities. Pantheistic philosophy led Wordsworth to believe that men should enter into communion with nature. Since nature was an expression of God and was charged with his presence, he believed it constituted a potential moral guide for man.