Essays on William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth’s 1802 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is firmly identified with both Romantic organist and expressivist principles. Held up as one of the seminal manifestos of Romanticism, Wordsworth looked towards introducing a new era of poetry through which he could annul the set patterns...

Poets can write about various subject matters and for this Romantic Period author, nature references seemed to spill onto every page. William Wordsworth was a poet during the pre-Victorian era and created a multitude of works in his prime. Wordsworth’s poems almost always reflect or...

The idea of Romanticism has changed over many years as mentioned by Jerome McGann in his work Rethinking Romanticism by stating that ‘The contrast of Romanticism that dominated 1945-80 seemed to be equally startling.’ Thus the concept of Romanticism is a prevalent idea in William...

William Wordsworth is regarded as one of the first and most successful romance writers in English literature. He was fond of nature that he would write about religious life in rural areas, and he hated capitalist urban civilization and cold relations under monetarism. Therefore, he...

Through reading and analysing Nutting, it is made instantly clear that Wordsworth, especially as a Romantic poet, has concerns about the preservation of nature and natural beauty in the face of mankind’s selfish and destructive nature. This is emphasised by the fact that the poem...

Over the course of history, Romanticism has been known to associate nature with being feminine or a woman. There are many qualities that can be associated with females or women in general. Through the usage of descriptive language, William Wordsworth, is able to express his...

No thematic discussion on the poetry of William Wordsworth would be complete without the topic of nature. The quote, “Happiness (if she had been to be found on earth) among the charms of Nature,” suggests that if happiness is actually existent and attainable by people...

English literature has divided into several age which each age has their own characteristic and masterpiece. The masterpiece including poetry, poems, sonnets, drama and etc. Because of that English literature also has many popular poets. Poet is a person who write a poetry. One of...

Did you ever read a poem and feel a connection to it? Did the author touch you and make you feel his pain, sadness, or happiness? William Wordsworth seems to write about his emotions in his poems and touches his readers. He writes about things...

William Wordsworth’s poetry shows a man that yearned for more, and someone who found comfort in his writings about nature. In Wordsworth’s poetry, particularly “We are Seven,” death plays a pivotal role in expressing his characters. He wanted to pierce into his reader’s feelings by...