Wordsworth (1770 ~ 1850), an English poet, is also called "lake poets" with Coleridge and Southey. Wordsworth was born in a lawyer's family. He was an orphan. I studied at Cambridge University and went to France twice 1790 and179/kloc-0. At that time, during the French Revolution, young Wordsworth expressed deep sympathy and yearning for the Revolution. Soon after returning to China, the situation changed greatly, and Wordsworth's attitude towards the French Revolution gradually tended to be conservative. Finally, he finally became a former romantic poet with the title of "Poet Laureate".
Wordsworth's poems are famous for describing natural scenery, rural scenery, villagers, boys and girls. The style of writing is simple and fresh, natural and smooth, which is relatively resistant to the flat and elegant style of neoclassicism, creating a fresh and lively romantic poetic style. Wordsworth and Coleridge published lyric ballads in 1798, announcing the birth of romantic new poetry. Wordsworth elaborated the theory of romantic new poetry in the preface of the second edition of Lyric Ballads Collection (1800), and advocated writing ordinary people's affairs, thoughts and feelings in their own language, which was regarded as the declaration of romantic poetry. Since then, Wordsworth's poems have been further developed in depth and breadth, with profound meanings in describing natural scenery and ordinary people's affairs, as well as philosophical thinking on self-reflection and life exploration. The long poem Overture, which was completed in 1805 and published in 1850, is his most representative work.
Wordsworth's poetic talent reached its peak from 1797 to 1807. After that, there were not many excellent works, and 1843 had no works when he was appointed as "Poet Laureate". However, throughout his life, his poetic achievements are remarkable, and he is worthy of being a great man after Shakespeare and Milton. The Artistic Achievement of Wordsworth's Poetry He not only founded this theory, but also practiced it. His short book Lyric Ballads, which was co-written with Coleridge, not only started their literary career, but also started the whole romantic poetry movement in Britain. Wordsworth is not a very familiar name for readers in China. Of course, everyone who can read English has read some of his short poems, such as Lonely Maid, but people who don't know English have little impression of his poems. One of the reasons is that his poems are difficult to translate-philosophical poems are more difficult to translate than narrative poems, while Wordsworth's writing is concise and fresh, which is more difficult to translate. The second reason is that he was once rated as the representative of "reactionary romanticism", so many people didn't like him before reading his works. Another reason may be that his poems about nature are not uncommon in China, and his thoughts are similar to those of Laozi and Zhuangzi, so people are not fresh to him. But he is worth reading. In addition to his historical importance, he has many advantages, such as clear writing, but the content is not dull, but often a stroke of genius, seemingly ordinary truth, but combined with a high degree of passion. He was so excited by the French Revolution that he later wrote such a famous sentence: Happiness, living at that dawn, young people are more like going to heaven! -Chapter 11 of "Overture" His landscape poems are extremely beautiful, such as: I am like a lonely flowing cloud. His love poems, such as those related to a girl named Lucy, are also extremely sincere and touching, without a line of vulgar words, and write lofty artistic conception with fresh words. He can accurately and clearly express complex and profound thoughts, and the short poems in folk songs are exquisitely written. The application of blank poems has reached a new peak in his hands, and there is a long poem that turns to reason. With this passage, he wrote a long poem "Next to Tintern Abbey", which expressed the comfort and inspiration given to him by nature. Then, after years of operation, he wrote an autobiography "Overture-The Growth of a Poet's Mind", which created a new form of autobiographical poetry. In the aspect of sonnets, he carried forward Milton's bold poetic style, and wrote high passion with heroic style, such as calling: Ah, come back, come and help us, and give us good style, virtue, strength and freedom! Your soul is an independent star, your voice is like the waves of the sea, and you are as pure, unrestrained and noble as the sky ... This is one of the few sonnets that mainly wrote about love in the past, and it also shows how two great poets who love freedom are soul mates! In a word, Wordsworth is one of the three or four greatest poets in English poetry. His poems are widely read, profound, thought-provoking and inspiring, all of which come from fresh words. It's just that his later poems gradually dried up and his works became tedious, which made people feel infinite regret.