write William Wordsworth as romantic poet
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There are X stages in Growth of English . One of them is Stage Vlll and it's called Romantic Literature or The French Revolution (From 1798 to 1832) .
In May, 1789,the French Revolution broke out with an initial message of liberty and humanity that inspired immensely the younger generation of the time.
The new slogan of liberty, fraternity and equality crossed the sea and rang and thrilled the progressive, youthful minds of England. Wordsworth made extensive tours in France and Coleridge was drawn to the activities of the French revolutionists. A new literary impulse was born out of the French Revolution. The publication of The Lyrical Ballads, a joint work by Wordsworth and Coleridge, in 1798,is found to mark the beginning of a new literary movement in the history of English Literature, known as 'Romanticism '.
Romantic poetry is the powerful and artistic expression of the spontaneous feeling in man.
'knowing that nature never did betray
The heart that loved her '_ Tintern Abbey W. Wordsworth
and he finds deepest thoughts in the humblest objects of nature_
' Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought '_ To A Skylark_ P. B. Shelly
Romantic poets are found essentially imaginative and their imaginative vigour expresses itself not merely in a colorful vision of the external world but also in a mystic communion with all that can be seen and perceived.
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Answer :-William Wordsworth was at once the oldest, the greatest, and the most long-lived among the romantic poets. He made himself the leader of the Romantic movement, first, because he issued in his Pre-face to the Lyrical Ballads what may be called the manifesto of the movement, in which he demanded a change both in the subject and the form of poetry that was truly revolutionary ; and secondly because the theme of his great poem The Prelude is the apotheosis of the Self which lies at the root of Romanticism. The basic traits of romanticism such as the love of nature, the belief in humanity, mysticism, revolutionary spirit etc were early developed in his poetry. As a young man he had high hopes for humanity and he had been nurtured in the Lake District which helped him to think well on man. He also read Rousseau’s view on the innocence of man. Thus, the teaching of Rousseau and his own experience convinced him that man was naturally good. He greatly supported the dawn of a new era for the humanity. But later he changed his mind when the French Revolutionists started to commit all kinds of atrocities.
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