English writer of the Romantic period that found inspiration in England’s Lake District. The young poet traveled from England to
France to support the revolutionary cause. Disillusioned by what he saw he returned home and spent the rest of his life in the Lake District in northern England. He felt that by immersing ourselves in nature, we connect ourselves to something larger, purer, and awe-inspiring.
The answer is William Wordsworth (1770-1850). It was in 1790, during his university studies at St. John's College in Cambridge, that this renowned British poet went on a walking tour of Europe and, after coming in contact with the French Revolution, he became an ardent supporter of it and of democracy - his political views would later on become less radical, but he never completely abandoned them. His prolific work includes, for the most part, poems, which show his sympathy for ordinary people and his concern with the relationship between men and nature. His most famous work is <em>The Prelude</em>, which was published after his death. He also composed prose, such as a tourist guide of his beloved Lake District (<em>A Guide through the District of the Lakes</em>, published in 1820), which attracted a very significant amount of tourists to the area.
Wordsworth spent the final years of his life at Rydal Mount in England, where he worked as Distributor of Stamps.
The reason why cowboys were portayed like a solitary, strapping white men lies on the fact that that cowboy was a late romantic creation. Essentially, the represented the ideal of freedom.
