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Wordsworth circle

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The literary and social circle associated with William Wordsworth and his poetic ideals

Detailed Definition
Wordsworth circle refers to the network of poets, thinkers, and collaborators around William Wordsworth in the late 18th and early 19th centuries—including Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb—who shared Romantic ideals about nature, imagination, and the poetic vocation; their dialogues and mutual influence shaped foundational texts like Lyrical Ballads.
Example
Example in poetry:
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey; Authors of Lyrical Ballads; Poets who lived in Grasmere and Keswick; The group that defined English Romanticism through nature and emotion

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey formed the Wordsworthian circle in England’s Lake District; The Wordsworthian circle championed nature, emotion, and common language against neoclassical artifice; Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads” (co-authored with Coleridge) launched the Wordsworthian circle’s poetic revolution; Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals provided raw material for the Wordsworthian circle’s focus on everyday observation
Additional Notes
The Wordsworth circle includes poets like Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb, who shared Romantic ideals of nature, imagination, and emotional authenticity; they influenced each other through collaboration and correspondence.

The Wordsworthian circle refers to poets influenced by Wordsworth’s ideals: nature, emotion, and common language; includes Coleridge and later Romantics who prioritized personal experience over formalism.
Also Known As
Wordsworthian circle Lake Poets group Grasmere poets Romantic Lake cohort Lake Poets (UK) Lake School Romantic Lake Poets Cumberland lyric circle Cumberland Romantics
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