【导语】 英国19世纪湖畔诗人华兹华斯是英国浪漫主义诗歌的代表人物之一，曾被誉为“桂冠诗人”，他开创的新鲜活泼的浪漫主义诗风影响了一代又一代直至今日的诗人。
William Wordsworth—PoetLaureate (桂冠诗人)
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who，with Samuel Taylor Coleridge，helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
Wordsworth，born in the Lake District，was the son of a lawyer.He went to school first at Penrith and then at Hawkshead Grammar School before studying，from 1787，at St John's College，Cambridge—all of the periods were later to be described in The Prelude.In 1790 he went with friends on a walking tour to France，the Alps and Italy，before arriving in France where Wordsworth was to spend the next year.
While in France he fell in love twice over：once with a young French woman，Annette Vallon，who bore him a daughter，and then，once more，with the French Revolution.Returning to England he wrote，and left unpublished，his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff—a short piece of writing in support of the French Revolutionary cause.In 1795，after receiving a legacy，Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy first in Dorset and then at Alfoxden，Somerset，close to Coleridge.
In these years he wrote many of his greatest poems and also travelled with Coleridge and Dorothy，in the winter of 17981799，to Germany.Two years later the second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared in 1801，just one year before Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson.This was followed，in 1807，by the publication of Poems in Two Volumes，which included the poems Resolution and Independence and Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.
During this period he also made new friendships with Walter Scott，Sir G．H.Beaumont and De Quincy，wrote such poems as Elegaic Stanzas(1807)，and fathered five children.He received a civil list pension in 1842 and was made poetlaureate just one year later.
Today Wordsworth's poetry remains widely read.Its universal appeal is perhaps best explained by Wordsworth' s own words on the role，for him，of poetry; what he called “the most philosophical of all writing” whose object is “truth carried alive into the heart by passion”.
