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
Noman Ahmed Shaikh

Content: It was basically a literary and artistic movement that originated during the late 18th Century in Europe. The movement saw artists from various walks of life, like painters, writers, poets, musicians, singers, etc. glorify the subtleties and beauty of nature, emotions, and past. Romanticism saw the birth of a new genre of poetry, which was later christened as the ‘ Romantic Poetry ’. The period between the late 1780s & 1790s until the 1850s came to be known as the ‘Romantic Age’. The famous poets, apart from William Wordsworth, of the Romantic Age include William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Walter Alva Scott, Robert Burns, and Lord Byron. The age was inspired by a series of events which took place in Europe after the mid 18th Century, and the most prominent among those were the Industrial Revolution (1760-1820), and the French Revolution (1789-1799). Romanticism had a significant effect on the sociopolitical scenario of Europe, and then later, of South America, as the romantic thinkers had a great influence on strong social values like liberalism, radicalism, conservatism, and patriotism. The history of ‘Romantic Poetry’ as a separate genre can be traced back to 1798 after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published the famous collection of poems titled ‘Lyrical Ballads’. Since then till the 1850s, the genre saw a flamboyant reign, and a number of great poets emerged, the most prominent of whom still remains Wordsworth.