Essays on William Wordsworth

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...

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...

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...

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’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...

Introduction In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Claudius, brother to the late King Hamlet, secretly messed with the minds of others to get what he wanted when he wanted it. People thought of him as a supporter to people’s problems while he was the one behind all...

In William Wordsworth’s “The Green Linnet,” intentional use of unique poetic structure combined with careful observation of the linnet parallels the bird with the act of poetry itself, demonstrating that in the absence of pathetic fallacy, an appreciative relationship is established between man and the...

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...

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...

For Wordsworth, it is the human imagination and potential to not just observe, but comprehend, nature that ascribes the sublime meaning. Without human cognizance, the objects and elements of the sublime are just physical tokens. Man’s finite existence and the sublime’s apparent totality appear in...

“Resolution and Independence” and “Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey” respectively illustrate the difference between a young and nave poet-wanderer to a traveler who has found wisdom through time and nature. Furthermore, the two poems are also able to elucidate dissimilar types of acquired wisdom through...

William Wordsworth and William Blake were both distraught by the plight of man in the early nineteenth century. Their separate but somewhat unified visions of man’s problems are displayed in their poems “Lines Written in Early Spring,” (lines 5-24) and “London,” respectively. They both make...