william wordsworth's representative works: Lyric Ballads, Beside tintern abbey, Overture, She Lives in a Lonely Place, and Daffodils.
Wordsworth is an English romantic poet, who was once the Poet Laureate. His poetic theory shook the rule of English classical poetics and strongly promoted the innovation of English poetry and the development of romantic movement. He is one of the most important English poets since the Renaissance, and his poem "Live simply and think nobly" is regarded as the motto of Keable College of Oxford University.
Wordsworth wrote many poems with the theme of the relationship between nature and life. The central idea is that nature is the source of joy and wisdom in life. Wordsworth traveled to Scotland in 183 and wrote The Lonely Harvester. In 187, he published two volumes of poems. The publication of this collection of poems summed up the ten years of his most vigorous creative life from 1797 to 187.
Style characteristics
Wordsworth's short poems are fresh, while his long poems are fresh and profound, which is a flat and elegant style against neoclassicism and creates a fresh and lively romantic poetic style. His sonnets are magnificent, and his Overture (185) is the first to write autobiographical "The Growth of a Poet's Mind" in verse, which has created a new style in both content and art.
Wordsworth's poems about nature are beautiful and moving, and one of the outstanding features of his poems is that they are full of feelings and scenes. This style is reflected by the author's choice of theme, language, meter, style and vocabulary.
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