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