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.
Influenced by the French Revolution and the Enlightenment in his early years, william wordsworth sympathized with the Revolution and social reform. Later, he deviated from the progressive thought, turned to conservatism and negativity, and praised the patriarchal clan system and the idyllic fantasy of life.
His early poems include Walking in the Evening (1793). 1798, he published a famous lyric ballad in cooperation with Coleridge. In the preface of the second edition of the book, the idea of abolishing ancient poetic terms and replacing them with popular and vivid folk songs and spoken words was put forward, which aroused strong repercussions in the poetry circle and attracted some condemnation. His later works include Poems of Lucy (1799), Ode to Immortality (1807), Duty of Duty (1807) and Hiking. His famous poem Overture (1850) was published after the poet's death.
He wrote many poems with fresh artistic conception, vivid images and simple language. He is especially good at praising elegant and quiet natural scenery and likes to portray the images of ordinary people who are active in nature. Many of his short poems are concise, exquisite, vivid and interesting, so Wordsworth is known as a natural poet. His thought of reforming poetic language and imagery is an important event in the history of English poetry development, which has an important and extensive influence on the changes of English poetry forms.