 Opening by introducing William Wordsworth's boyhood home in the Lake District of England, this film from the Famous Authors series offers an overview of the writer's work and biography. The Lake District greatly inspired Wordsworth and resulted in his apparent fascination with nature. The film contextualizes the poet's life at Cambridge and then in France, the ongoing conditions of the French Revolution, and the important relationships of Wordsworth's life, including those with Annette Vallon; Mary Hutchinson; his sister, Dorothy; and the poet Samuel Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. (37 minutes)
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