William Wordsworth is commonly regarded as the vanguard poet of the Romantic movement in British literature. ... Afforded an education not uncommon of the British bourgeoisie, Wordsworth attended St. ... Having fallen prey to his keen interest in the excitement of French revolutionary ideology, Wordsworth spent the next several years in France with his lover, Annette Vallon. ... Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" became the consummate expression of the author's vibrant and effulgent new style. Wordsworth's most famous poem, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" was includ...

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"Compare and contrast William Blake's "The Tyger" (1793) and William Wordsworth's "Strange fits of passion I have known" (1798/1800). ... Wordsworth's poems were not as heavily symbolic as Blake's. Wordsworth had a great love of nature and his depictions of the world are far more naturalistic than Blake's mythical, symbolically charged descriptions. ... This poem, one of four "Lucy" poems included in the second volume of "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), describes the poets premonition of death as he travels towards Lucy's house. ... Blake and Wordsworth came from v...

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For my theory on the relationship between literature and society, I am using Plato, Wordsworth, Marx, Bakhtin, Fitzgerald, Mitchell, and Althusser. ... To support my claim, I am using the reference of Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads when he states, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquillity" (Wordsworth 34). Wordsworth's poetry is not based on imitations but on past memories. ...

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