FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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It offered a “glorious renovation” of society.
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He hoped to see similar revolution in England.
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It offered a new perspective into an outdated social structure.
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It inspired his poetic creativity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -WILLIAM WORDSWORTH was the only major English Romantic poet who witnessed the French Revolution at first hand. While still a university student, Wordsworth visited France briefly in 1790 on his walking tour and became inspired by revolutionary ideals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth had great hopes for the Revolution, and he believed that once a republic was firmly in power in France, he and his contemporaries “should see the people having a strong hand/ In framing their own laws; whence betters day; To all mankind” (Wordsworth, Book IX, lines 517-18).
Detailed explanation-3: -In this poem “The French Revolution", Wordsworth describes the rapture and enthusiasm with which the French revolution was greeted after the French revolution. The common place world encumbered with senseless customs, laws and tyranny seemed to become an enchanting world of romance.
Detailed explanation-4: -The French Revolution stirred the British people and affected their literature in a major way. There was a complete break with the Age of Reason and a new kind of literature known as the Romantic Revival came into exist with the publication of Lyrical Ballad (1798).