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April 7 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the English romantic poet William Wordsworth.
An outstanding English poet, representative of the "lake school", William Wordsworth (Wordsworth) was born on April 7, 1770 in the County of Cumberland.
In 1779, the young William Wordsworth was sent to the grammar school in Hawkshead (North Lancashire), where he brought an excellent knowledge of ancient Philology and mathematics and a well-read English poetry. In Hawkshead, the future poet devoted much time to his favorite pastime-walking.
Together with S. T. Coleridge and R. Southey, Wordsworth belongs to the group of romantic poets who composed the "lake school".

Wordsworth, like his friend and associate Coleridge, was greatly influenced by the French revolution, then he became disillusioned with its ideals and sought solace in rural life, away from the cities that represented for him all the ills of civilization. Having settled away from the city noise, he contemplates nature and writes poetry.
Beginning in 1795, Wordsworth wrote his best poems, also great poems. The theme of his poems was the inner, invisible life of nature, he noticed even the simplest phenomena and described them as manifestations of the highest beauty. Simple country life and simple "natural man" became the subject of his poetry. "The love of nature," wrote Wordsworth, " teaches us to love Man." During his lifetime, two complete works of the poet were published.
William Wordsworth founded a new school of poetry, which was called the "lake school". Its characteristic feature is contemplation and dreaminess. Although there was no great talent in this school, it had a great influence on all the later poetry of England.
The Central work of his work, the poem "Prelude, or the Formation of the poet's consciousness", is known as the best English "biography of the soul" of a romantic artist. Since the second half of the XIX century, references to" Prelude " were used by almost all English-language writers and poets who worked in the genre of autobiography. The poem was parsed into quotations by more than one generation of readers.
The work of William Wordsworth occupies a prominent place in the history of English literature. In England, the first half of the XIX century. called "the era of Wordsworth".