He felt that man should look to nature as his moral and spiritual guide, an inspiration for everyone, not only poets. He appealed to the purer feelings of man, which he defined as “the essential passions of the heart.” Childhood was important in his work also because it presented a link with the past, his own past, and his works are very often a contrast between past and present memories and emotions recollected at a later date but with the same intensity of feeling. He placed an emphasis on what was simple and unadulterated and for this reason children and childhood were popular themes in his poetry. Themes: Wordsworth praised the common place: a natural landscape, the lives of humble people. The poet encourages the reader to observe and enjoy nature instead of analysing it as previous poets did. The works of neoclassical poets had subjects as heroes, instead in Wordsworth's works the subject became the poet himself with his thoughts, feelings and emotions. Wordsworth brought a self-consciousness into his poetry which had never existed before. The result was a new type of poetry idealised principally by Wordsworth in his Lyrical Ballads. Scarica WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Preface to Lyrical Ballads e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wordsworth's poetry: The neoclassical characteristics in poetry, for example: The contents of poetry, the way in which these were expressed and the role of the poet were all changed by him.
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