ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” This quote by William Wordsworth defines poetry as the expression of emotions that a regular conversation would not be able to project.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions. By this quote, he implied that poetry comes out of emotions and inspiration.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility", and calls his own poems in the book “experimental". A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eliot asserts that a poem can be composed either with emotion or with feelings. It is not always necessary that poetry must originate from emotion. In this way Eliot rejects the subjective emotionalism of Wordsworth’s theory.