Wordsworth is an English romantic poet. He used to be a poet laureate. He was born in a lawyer's family and studied at St. John's College, Cambridge University. After graduation, he traveled around Europe and experienced the storm of the French Revolution.
His poem "Simple Life and Noble Thoughts" is regarded as the motto of Keable College of Oxford University. He was passionate about the French Revolution, believing that it showed the perfection of human nature and would save the people in dire straits under the monarchy. In Blay, he met many moderate gironde people.
He is one of the most important English poets since the Renaissance. His poetic theory has shaken the rule of English classical poetics and strongly promoted the innovation of English poetry and the development of Romantic movement.
Brief introduction of lyric ballads;
In 1798, Wordsworth and Coleridge combined their poems into a book called Lyric Ballads. Apart from the first poem (Coleridge's Ode to an Ancient Ship) and the last poem (Tintern Abbey), the collection of poems does not include their best works.
It got rid of the classical creative principles such as simplicity, elegance, wit and clarity that most poets insisted on in the18th century. History has proved that it is this collection of poems that was severely criticized at the beginning of its publication that created a poetic style and became a milestone in the history of English literature, especially in the field of poetry.
In content, it depicts the scenery of nature and people's life in nature in the language commonly used by ordinary people, expresses the poet's feelings and meditation, and creates a modern poetic style to explore and explore people's inner world. Formally, it reached its peak in Pope's hands, and the Heroic Couplet, which monopolized the poetry circle at that time, was abandoned.