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Wordsworth(1770/1850)the poet of Nature
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Autobiographical poetAutobiographical poet At the centre of his interest:At the centre of his interest:connexion connexion
child-naturechild-nature A man had to be as happy as a childA man had to be as happy as a child He started his career protesting He started his career protesting
against the evil of war/ against the evil of war/ industrialization, the upper class industrialization, the upper class indifference to the suffering of rural indifference to the suffering of rural peoplepeople
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1789 French Revolution He had to leave France Shocked by the bloody F.R. England against Napoleon :war As a reaction W. became a reactionary
( Tory) He went to the Lake district with his sister
Dorothy He met Coleridge : a new philosophy,poetry
“ The Lyrical Ballads”
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Nature a whole,stg.alive including animate and inanimate elements
Educator of senses Educator of mind Guide to wisdom Guide to goodness Source of
consolation Perceived through
the sight and the hearing
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Influenced by Hartley
A child = simple sensations caused by by physical experiences/simple ideas
A man = complex ideas -associations The poet elaborates and memorizes
complex ideas (pag 293) creates a poem
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The poet Poetry = record of a state of mind +
imagination Imagination allows the poet to perceive, to
see with the eyes of the soul It allows to see the relation man (child)-
nature The poet is endowed with Imagination The poet Is superior to other men The poet Is the VATE, THE TEACHER
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The Lyrical Ballads ( 1798–1880manifesto of the Romantic Movement
W. 19 poems Starting point rural
people, natural elements seen through the eyes of Imagination to fuse the real with the ideal
Coleridge 4 poems Opposite starting
point to make the ideal seem real
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Language and style The language had to be simple, but his best
poems are written in an elevated style A minimum of stylization He didn’t work in any poetical tradition At the end of his life he was: respectable,
conservative / a Tory) 1843 “ laureate poet” Criticized by the poets of the second
generation