Wordsworth's great period poems: four essays: Levinson.
William Wordsworth 's poetry exhibits Romantic characteristics and for his treatment towards romantic elements, he stands supreme and he can be termed a Romantic poet on a number of reasons. The Romantic Movement of the early nineteenth century was a revolt against the classical tradition of the eighteenth century; but it was also marked by certain positive trends.
And in his essay on epitaphs, Wordsworth said, maybe, that was the very origin of poetry. Perhaps, poetry began with commemorative verses for those who have died. But the thing about the Lucy poem, 'She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways,' is that it's not an epitaph on someone famous, as it were on Princess Diana or on a famous person in history.
Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” and “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” are poems that convey Wordsworth’s preoccupations with nature, politics and the imagination through the beauteous image of the daffodils “fluttering and dancing in the breeze” and a city adorned with an almost celestial light.During the romantic period nature became a powerful symbol; a vision of life as it should be.
The poetry reflected the strong grip which the rationalistic philosophy of Godwin had on the poet's mind in the early 1790s. As poetry, Guilt and Sorrow marked a great and momentous change in style and featured chiefly a sophisticated attempt at narration which replaced the naive description of nature in the earlier poems. As close inspection.
A few writers became celebrities. Although we now know the Romantic period as an age of poetry, the prose essay, the drama and the novel flourished during this epoch. This period saw the emergence of the literary critic, with accompanying anxieties over the status of criticism as literature.
Romantic Literary Criticism English literary criticism of the Romantic era is most closely associated with the writings of William Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) and Samuel.
He upset the increasingly conventional Wordsworths by altering the house and garden and publishing a little too much detail in his essays, Recollections of the Lake Poets. In the garden Wordsworth’s lines of poetry are displayed by the flowerbeds, as if it’s literally cultivating verse.