ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth was called by Shelly “Poet of nature”. He, too, called himself “A Worshiper of Nature”. He held a firm faith that nature could enlighten the kindheartedness and universal brotherhood of human being, and only existing in harmony with nature where man could get true happiness.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Detailed explanation-3: -He was rightly termed by Mathew Arnold as the ‘Highest priest of nature’. The greatest poet of the Romantic age, William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland in England on 7 April 1770.

Detailed explanation-4: -Conclusion. Throughout his life Wordsworth remained a true interpreter of nature to humanity. “Nature not only gave him the nature, ” says Matthew Arnold, “but wrote his poems for him.” He became the worshipper of nature, her true priest and a revealer of her harmonies to humanity.

Detailed explanation-5: -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. As Wordsworth explains in The Prelude, a love of nature can lead to a love of humankind.