Wordsworth was a great literary figure of the Romantic period. ... The poem is a lyrical ballad, it was experimental poetry that defied the traditions. ... The image of Wordsworth sitting under a tree surrounded by nothing but nature is conjured up. ... The speaker can be interpreted as Wordsworth based on the use of 'I' and true emotion being at the heart of the Romanticism. ... Moreover in the final stanza Wordsworth leaves us with a dilemma of thoughts. ...

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William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. ... William Wordsworth's father was a legal representative to James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, an English politician and landowner. ... At the time this book was published it failed to arouse interest at the time, but it has since come to be known as his masterpiece English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, William Wordsworth helped launch the Romantic age in English literature towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ... As time pas...

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Unlike Wordsworth who was interested in natural surroundings and shunned society, Lamb who was born and lived in the midst of London street, was deeply interested in the city crowd, its pleasures and occupations, its endless comedies and tragedies, and in his essays he interpreted with great insight and human sympathy that crowded human life of joys and sorrows. ... Wordsworth and Coleridge's sense of the emancipatory opportunities brought in by the new historical moment was expressed in their Lyrical Ballads (1798), which revolutionized the theory and practice of poetry. Wordsworth ...

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