William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
Nature
Everyday things
Man
Emotions translated in poetry by memory and imagination
Characteristics of Romantic poetry
He writes in simple words in order to transmit the topics of his poetry to the ordinary people
Addressee: ordinary people
Very simple language
Through imagination and nature the poet reconstracts emotions
Glorification of the rural life
in rural life man is nearer to his purer passions who are common to all men
Poet is a man among men
Relationship between man and nature
Pantheistic view
Man and nature are inseparable
Nature comforts man in sorrow
Importance of childhood
First generation of romantic poets
Conception of poetry as a solitary act originating in the ordinary, combined to the happiness and the pleasure of this special and exclusive ability
Nature as a world of sense perspections
New sensibility