WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

• Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" - The Manifesto of English Romanticism (1800)
• everyday situations as the subject of poetry
• use of the language of common people purified by the poet
• recollection in tranquillity
• the poet is a man speaking to men but with a greater sensitivity
  

Themes:

• the relationship between man and nature (they are one entity);
  
  
• pantheistic view of Nature;
  
  
• Nature as guide and consolation;
  
  
• importance of childhood and memory;
  
  
• the three stages of human life

• importance of the senses, especially sight and hearing;
  
  
• the poet as a teacher

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