PREFACE TO SECOND
EDITION OF LYRICAL BALLADS
EDITION OF LYRICAL BALLADS
-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
OUTLINE
¢ Romanticism
¢ Wordsworth: Life and Works
¢ Purpose of the Preface to Lyrical
Ballads
¢ What is a poet?
¢ Language of poetry
¢ What is poetry?
¢ Subject of poetry
ØLiterary movement of 18th and 19th centuries.
ØReaction against Neoclassical literature
ØFolk art
William Wordsworth
Ø1770-1850
Ø Lakeland Poet
Ø Influenced from French Revolution
It was an experiment against the meaningless and fancy phraseology of the previous writers of the 18th century, to understand how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society was adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure.
1.Qualification of a Poet
2.Language of Poem
3.Topics of Poem
Definition of a Poet
}What is a Poet?
}To whom does he address himself?
}And what language is to be expected from him?
POET;
}«is a man speaking to men»
}Knows a lot – «greater knowledge of human nature»
}Is turned in to emotions–his own and others’: «a lively sensibility»
}Has a good memory and can imagine distant things as if they are present
«that he looks before and after»
} Can communicate not only feelings he individually experiences, but also he perceives in his environment
«He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility,
more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind;» (486)
LANGUAGE of POEM;
} The language
of the
poetry
which
is «really used by man»
}simplicity
of the
language
} It should
be coloring
with
the
imagination
«Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is immortal as the heart of man» (488)
He defines a good poem as : «spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity» (490)
q
Common
life, ordinary
things
«Humble
and rustic
life was generally
chosen,
because,
in that condition, the
essential
passion
of the heart
find a better
soil in which
they can attain
their maturity»
q Anything
in real
world
q Beauty
of Nature
q Situations
through
emotions
rather
than
emotions
through
situations.
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