Who is the poet? From the Preface to Lyrical Ballads “What is a poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man endued with more lively sensibility who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind”. “ and because, being less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions”. The language of poetry From the Preface to Lyrical Ballads “The language of these men is adopted because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived”. The object of poetry From the Preface to Lyrical Ballads “The principal object was to choose incidents and situations from common life to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them the primary laws of our nature”. William Wordsworth, Shreveport, James Smith Noel Collection Onl圜onnect. This edition contains the famous Preface, the Manifesto of English Romanticism. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800).Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798).Wordsworth’s House in Cockermouth, Cumberland Onl圜onnect.
In 1795 he developed a close friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he collaborated in the 1797-1799 period to write Lyrical Ballads.The Reign of Terror led him to become estranged to the Republic, and the war between England and France caused him to return to England.In 1792 he had a daughter, Caroline, from a French aristocratic woman, Annette Vallon.In 1791 he travelled to Revolutionary France and was fascinated by the Republican movement.His father, a lawyer, taught him poetry and allowed him access to his library.Born in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770.William Wordsworth Benjamin Robert Haydon, William Wordsworth, 1842, London, National Portrait Gallery.
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