His childhood was very miserable. Later, he attended a school in the Lake District of northwest England and studied in a beautiful natural environment. He prefers to learn from nature. The love for nature formed in childhood became the emotion naturally expressed in Wordsworth's poems later.
Wordsworth's creation tends to endow daily trifles with novel charm. Together with Coleridge, he wrote lyric ballads, which became the representative works of English Romantic Movement. In the preface, Wordsworth put forward a brand-new element of poetry creation, bypassing the use of flowery words in18th century poetry. The publication of this book marks a breakthrough in the style of classical traditional poetry in the18th century. At the same time, it also became the beginning of the revival of romanticism in Britain.
Wordsworth accurately and clearly expressed complex and profound philosophy. Many works are like this. Wordsworth was influenced by the simple materialistic philosophical work The Revelation of Nature, from which many philosophical viewpoints came.
He believes that all poetry is the natural expression of strong feelings, forming a unique poetry theory. Direct expression of personal feelings (happy or excited or comfortable personal feelings), he believes that the role of poetry is to give unexpected and magnificent light to things that are particularly familiar and can be seen everywhere in our daily life. He believes that the poet's writing is bound by only one thing, and that is to give people an immediate pleasure.
For the language used in poetry, Wordsworth tries to make it close to the real human language, and constructs vivid and rich feelings by fitting the prosodic structure of the real language.
Wordsworth's demand for the theme or theme of poetry works, his deep worship of nature and his keen interest in the discovery and exploration of ordinary people's emotions.
Wordsworth was the first to discover that the expression of words in poetry is the most basic emotion when human beings face natural phenomena directly.
Wordsworth is also a famous figure, exploring and describing people's feelings. Many themes in his poems are described in the background of rural life, and the characters in his poems also belong to the bottom of the British rural social class. This is because he is extremely familiar with such rural life and firmly believes that the countryside is a better soil than the city, and he can find the most basic emotions of human beings and cultivate and strengthen the continuous connection between man and nature.
All these theories are helpful to destroy English poetry creation based on classical theories and strongly stimulate the rise of a new generation of poets.
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, as lake poets, all lived in the lake area of northwest England. These people were deeply influenced by the French Revolution and the British Industrial Revolution, so they were defined as lake poets. Become a part of the romantic movement in the history of literature. Almost all Wordsworth's excellent poems were written in the first decade of his literary career (1798- 1807).
At this time, he still has young political enthusiasm, or at least some contact with real life. After that, his talent for poetry creation obviously disappeared in his completely secluded life and increasingly stale and conservative thoughts. His later works are full of mysticism, and many books are incomprehensible.
Wordsworth thinks that poets have some special abilities, such as keen perception, overflowing enthusiasm and tenderness. They have become the main elements of poetry.
According to the theory of "returning to nature", he believes that the theme of poetry should be a slow and dull life, and poetry can also absorb the daily language of rural people.
Critics and theorists of the same period will have a greater influence on Wordsworth, and the poet's feelings will be more sensitive. Think that emotion and reason are balanced. He regards the poet's emotion as the center of criticism, so it also marks a turning point in English literary theory.
Wordsworth is a link between the past and the future, not just a twister and challenger.