LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ROMANTIC ERA ENGLISH LITERATURE
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wrote “The World is Too Much____” and “Lyrical Ballads”
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delighted in nature
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was known mostly for his failures
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inherited a friend’s estate
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Detailed explanation-1: -While living with Dorothy at Alfoxden House, Wordsworth became friends with a fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They formed a partnership that would change both poets’ lives and alter the course of English poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Wordsworth, poetry, which should be written in “the real language of men, ” is nevertheless “the spontaneous overflow of feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Three main principles of Wordsworth’s poetic diction: It should be filtered and refined. The refined vernacular words should be the diction of poetry. (ii) It should be the language of men in a state of vivid sensation. It should have a certain colouring of imagination.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth repeatedly emphasizes the importance of nature to an individual’s intellectual and spiritual development. A good relationship with nature helps individuals connect to both the spiritual and the social worlds.