The poets robert Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and be ecame known as the Lake poets Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversational blank has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of humankind The tide of critical opinion turned in his favor after 1820, and Wordsworth lived to see his work universally praised. In 1842 he was awarded a government pension, and in the following year he succeeded Southey as poet laureate(戴桂冠的) Wordsworth died on April 23, 1850, and was buried in the grasmere churchyard 4. Jane austen Austen, Jane(1775-1817), English novelist, is noted for her witty stud ies of early-19th-century English society. With detail, Austen portrayed the quiet day-to-day life of members of the upper middle class. Her works combine romantic comedy with social satire and psychological insight Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in Hampshire, England. She was the seventh child of eight, and her family was close, affectionate, and lively. She lived most of her life among the same kind of people about whom she wrote. Her lifelong companion and confidant was her older and only sister, Cassandra. Neither woman ever married but dozens of relatives and friends widened Austen's social ex beyond her immed iate family. Jane had almost no formal education, but she read extensively and critically. At age 13, she was already writing amusing and instructive parodies(打油诗文) and variations on 18th- century literature-from sentimental novels to serious hist By the time she was 23 years old, Austen had written three novels: Elinor and Marianne, First Impressions, and Susan, which were early versions of, respectively, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Northanger Abbey (1818) All of Austen's novels were originally published anonymously. Several of them went through two editions in her lifetime. Pride and Prejudice was particularly praised, and Emma(1816) received a favorable review from English writer Sir Walter Scott, who was a prominent literary figure of the time The main theme of Austens first full novel, Sense and Sensibility, is that sensibility--responsiveness, openness, enthusiasm-is highly desirable, but that it must be tempered by good sense and prudence. In other words, a person needs both sense and sensibility for fulfillment and survival In 1817, this bright, attractive little woman died, quietly as she had lived, at15 The poets Robert Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and became known as the Lake Poets. Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversational blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of humankind. The tide of critical opinion turned in his favor after 1820, and Wordsworth lived to see his work universally praised. In 1842 he was awarded a government pension, and in the following year he succeeded Southey as poet ’laureate (戴桂冠的). Wordsworth died on April 23, 1850, and was buried in the Grasmere churchyard. 4. Jane Austen Austen, Jane (1775-1817), English novelist, is noted for her witty studies of early-19th-century English society. With detail, Austen portrayed the quiet, day-to-day life of members of the upper middle class. Her works combine romantic comedy with social satire and psychological insight. Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in Hampshire, England. She was the seventh child of eight, and her family was close, affectionate, and lively. She lived most of her life among the same kind of people about whom she wrote. Her lifelong companion and confidant was her older and only sister, Cassandra. Neither woman ever married, but dozens of relatives and friends widened Austen’s social experiences beyond her immediate family. Jane had almost no formal education, but she read extensively and critically. At age 13, she was already writing amusing and instructive parodies (打油诗文) and variations on 18th-century literature—from sentimental novels to serious histories. By the time she was 23 years old, Austen had written three novels: Elinor and Marianne, First Impressions, and Susan, which were early versions of, respectively, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Northanger Abbey (1818). All of Austen’s novels were originally published anonymously. Several of them went through two editions in her lifetime. Pride and Prejudice was particularly praised, and Emma (1816) received a favorable review from English writer Sir Walter Scott, who was a prominent literary figure of the time. The main theme of Austen’s first full novel, Sense and Sensibility, is that sensibility—responsiveness, openness, enthusiasm—is highly desirable, but that it must be tempered by good sense and prudence. In other words, a person needs both sense and sensibility for fulfillment and survival. In 1817, this bright, attractive little woman died, quietly as she had lived, at