Concetti Chiave
- Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads established the foundation of English Romanticism, emphasizing everyday life and ordinary people.
- The poems focus on the truth found in common people's experiences, using accessible language and subjective poetic expression.
- Wordsworth viewed nature as inherently good, valuing the child's innate sensitivity and the poet's ability to interpret nature's mysteries.
- He embraced a pantheistic view, seeing nature as divine and emphasizing the role of memory and imagination in shaping personality and emotions.
- Wordsworth's creative process involved writing in tranquility, using memories to evoke emotions, and employing blank verse instead of the heroic couplet.
Lyrical ballads and romanticism
Wordsworth and Coleridge produced a collection of poems called Lyrical Ballads. The second edition became the Manifesto of English Romanticism.
Everyday life and ordinary people
In the Preface the subject of the poem is the life of every day, not heroes but ordinary people. According to this the truth of human reason is due to normal people. The language isn’t sophisticated, but it is an accessible language to all people. This will be a subjective poetry of the poet. The basic theme is the nature.
Nature and childhood
Wordsworth believes in the goodness of nature as Rousseau. The child is better than mature man, because he preserved in whether a particular sensibility. The poet is a man among men. The poet can read the mystery of nature and give it to other people.
Memory and imagination
Wordsworth has a pantheistic view and as Spinoza, he says that nature is God. For Wordsworth is important the ability of memory, to recollect the memories of childhood. Man’s personality comes from things pleasant and unpleasant of childhood, as the philosopher Hartley says. Wordsworth wants to see how the nature influence the phase of growth. The memory is common to all things. The poet has an imagination more developed, this is a creative forces able to create emotions with imagination.
The poet's creative process
Wordsworth explains “an recollected in tranquility”, that is the poet must write in a quiet moment, with also the help of memories. The sequence is: object, poet, sensory experience, emotion, memory = recollected in tranquility, kindred emotion, poem, reader, emotion. He abandoned the heroic couplet and he used blank verse.
Domande da interrogazione
- What is the significance of "Lyrical Ballads" in the context of English Romanticism?
- What role do memory and imagination play in Wordsworth's poetic process?
"Lyrical Ballads," produced by Wordsworth and Coleridge, became the Manifesto of English Romanticism with its second edition. It emphasized everyday life and ordinary people, using accessible language to highlight the truth of human reason through normal experiences.
Wordsworth values memory as a crucial element in shaping personality, drawing from childhood experiences. He believes in a pantheistic view where nature is akin to God. The poet's imagination is a creative force that evokes emotions, and Wordsworth describes the creative process as "recollected in tranquility," where memories and emotions are transformed into poetry.
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