Concetti Chiave
- William Wordsworth was deeply influenced by the natural beauty of the Lake District, which inspired much of his poetry.
- His early experiences in France, including his romance with Annette Vallon and involvement with the Revolution, had a profound impact on his life and work.
- The friendship and collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge were pivotal in shaping Romantic poetry, leading to the publication of "Lyrical Ballads."
- Wordsworth was the first poet to focus on children in his poems, emphasizing the imaginative faculty unique to children and poets.
- Nature in Wordsworth's poetry is multifaceted, representing both the rural landscape and a source of emotional response and memory.
Infanzia e ispirazione
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the Lake District, an area of supreme natural beauty. As a child he mostly leave outdoor and the countryside provided the inspiration for his later poetry. In 1791 he left England for France. In France, Wordsworth became passionately committed to the cause of the Revolution and he also fell in love with a French girl, Annette Vallon but the lack of money forced him to return to England, abandoning both his political beliefs and Annette. This combination brought him to the edge of nervous breakdown.
Incontro con Coleridge
In 1797 he met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the friendship with him was crucial to the development of Romantic poetry because spending much time to writing, talking, and planning with him, led to the result of a collection of poems called Lyrical Ballads published in 1798. He was the first poet that make the child the subject of his poems because the imagination place an important role in the Romanticism and the imagination, for Wordsworth is a faculty only of the child and the poets. The child is also in its simplicity and goodness, closed than the adult to the original state of harmony with nature but when he grows up, he gradually loses his memory of a perfect union with the universe.
Significato della natura
Nature is used in a variety of senses:
-the first mean is that of the countryside as opposed to the town (the landscape is rural and solitary);
-the second mean is that of nature is a source of feelings,many of this poems are essentially a memory of man's response to nature.
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