He published many pieces, one of which was the Lyrical Ballads. ... In his famous Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, published four years later, Wordsworth emphasized the importance of writing in a deliberately simple and powerfully direct style to which readers could easily relate. ... Wordsworth had a gift. ... Wordsworth, William. "Wordsworth, William." ...
Romantic Poets William Wordsworth writes in his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" that "if the views, with which they [the poems] were composed, were indeed realized, a class of poetry would be produced, well adapted to interest mankind permanently, and not unimportant in the multiplicity and in the quality of its moral relation" (mallor & matlock 574). ... Wordsworth relies heavily on his belief in the power of association. ... The feeling that is produced from Wordsworth's poetry is a reflection of that which the Poet feels. Wordsworth emphasizes that "there is no object standing betw...
"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...
