William Wordsworth Romantic

Info

- poetry should treat common subjects and use the language of ordinary people

- democratic in subject matter and style

- spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

Works

- The Prelude - central literary document and most important poetic achievement of British romanticism

- "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" - common things in an uncommon light

- Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems

- "Expostulation and Reply"

- The Lucy Poems - probably fictional; Nature's step-child

- sonnets - contrasts the child's and the adult's experiences with Nature

Citation

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.