Life
- France revolution
=> enthusiasm for the democratic ideals.
- The brutal developments
of the revolution => disillusionment (healed only by the contact
with the nature).
- Coleridge's friendship
=> crucial development of the English Romantic poetry =>
“Lyrical Ballads”.
Manifesto of English
Romanticism
In his preface he says
that:
- Subject should deal with
every day situation.
- Language should be
simple.
W's choice lies the fact
that in humble rural life man is nearer to his own purer passions.
Therefore the poet is not a man in an ivory tower, but a man among
men, writing about what interests mankind..
Man and nature
-W shares Rousseau's faith
in the goodness of nature as well as in the excellence of child.
-Interest in the
relationship between the natural world and the human consciousness.
-Man and nature are
inseparable.
-Nature is something that
includes both inanimate and human nature.
-Nature teaches man to
love and to act moral way.
The senses and memory
-Nature means also the
world of sense perceptions.
-Sensations lead to simple
thoughts, which later combine into complex and organized ideas.
-Memory is a major force
in the process of growth of poet's mind and moral character.
Recollection in
tranquility
- Imagination (intuition)
is a supreme gift.
-All genuine poetry “takes
its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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