William Wordsworth (1770-1850) - Modesto Junior College
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Transcript of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) - Modesto Junior College
See Norton p 12
• Glorification of Nature
& of the Ordinary.
• Suggesting significance
in the subject matter of
everyday life—elevating
the importance of those.
• Romantic poetry such as
Wordsworth‟s often
promoted sympathy not
only for humble country
folk but “for the
disgraced, outcast, and
delinquent—„convicts,
female vagrants, gypsies,
…idiot boys, and mad
mothers‟” (NA 16).
• In light of the French
Revolution, the attention
to the commoner can be
seen as a political,
democratizing move.