Title: William Wordsworth Contribution To Romanticism - Bombay Reads
Headings: William Wordsworth and His Contribution to Romantic Poetry
William Wordsworth and His Contribution to Romantic Poetry
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Introduction to Romanticism of William Wordsworth
Rise of Romantic Poetry
Contribution of William Wordsworth to Romantic Poetry
1. Love for the Physical Appearance of Nature:
2. Admiration and Affection Towards the Peacefulness of Nature:
3. Considered Nature as a Living Soul:
4. Considered Nature as a Great Teacher of Mankind
William Wordsworth’ Take on Human Life
Dove Cottage, Lake District, UK
William Wordsworth with his sister Dorothy
The Lyrical Ballads: Greatest Poems of the Romantic Age
Lyrical Ballads
Conclusion
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Content: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (source – Wikipedia)
The most popular group emerging from the age of romantic poetry is the one called “Lake Poets”. These include Wordsworth himself, ST Coleridge, and Robert Southey. The Lake Poets were those who settled by the lakes in northwestern England, a territory rightly known as the Lake District, which was by glorified the beauty of the countryside extensively in their respective works. Contribution of William Wordsworth to Romantic Poetry
After all the poets of Romantic Age, Wordsworth is regarded as the greatest one. In fact, he is also considered as one of the greatest poets of all time, period. William Wordsworth was April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom, to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson. He is widely considered the founder and most central figure in English Romanticism. As mentioned earlier, the genre ‘Romantic Poetry’ began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and ST Coleridge. Through is poems, William Wordsworth demonstrated is immense love and reverence for nature, though his observations and perceptions about nature were in opposition to an earlier famous nature-influenced poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Pope observed nature with objectivity and analyses, an approach which came to be known as ‘Hyper-Individualism’.