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William Wordsworth
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Proved skilful at verse forms such as
sonnets, odes, ballads and lyrics
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in 1975 he received an
inheritance and moved to
dorset with
his sister dorothy who
remained his most
faithful friend
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what is the poet?
He is a man speaking to men:
a man endued with more lively sensibility who
has a greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind’
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The principal object […] was to choose incidents and situations from common life […] to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them […] the primary laws of our nature’
‘The language […] of these men (low and rustic people) is adopted […] because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived
[…] and because, being less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions’
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears,
and an emotion, kindred to that which
was before the subject of contemplation,
is gradually produced, and
does itself actually exist in the mind
‘In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on; but the emotion […] from various causes is qualified by various pleasures, so that in describing any passions whatsoever, which are voluntarily described, the mind will upon the whole be in a state of enjoyment’