background and life to his works. The revolution from neoclassicism to romanticism is seen in the works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ who emphasized the importance of emotion and imagination in literature. In his Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800)‚ Wordsworth described the lyric as "emotion recollected in tranquility‚" and Coleridge‚ in his Biographia Literaria (1817)‚ defined imagination as "the repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation‚" rather
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Paraphrasing Paragraph 1 With his telescope Galileo made quite a few spectacular discoveries. The moon‚ Jupiter‚ and the Milky Way were part of these discoveries. His discoveries were accomplished with a low powered telescope‚ lower than the telescopes we use today. Paragraph 2 There is¬¬¬¬¬¬ a larger number of extroverts than introverts in America. That makes it harder for introverts to fit in with other extroverts. When introverts go to school it is harder for them because the teacher makes
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Copyright © 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. ELH 63.3 (1996) 657-680 Wordsworth’s "Nutting" and the Violent End of Reading Robert Burns Neveldine Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved‚ and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are‚ on the contrary‚ creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result‚ their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual
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THE ‘PREFACE’ TO LYRICAL BALLADS AADED TO THE SECOND EDITION OF LB IN 1800 IN PUTS FORWARD WORDSWORTH’S THEORY OF POETIC DICTION Wordsworth’s purpose‚ as he tells in the Preface was‚ “to choose incidents and situations from common life”‚ and quite naturally‚ he also intended to use‚ “a selection of language‚ really used by men”. He was to deal with humble and rustic life and so he should also use the language of the rustics‚ farmers‚ shepherds who were to be the subjects of his poetry. The language
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This democratic view emphasizes individuality and uniqueness. Throughout his work‚ Wordsworth showed strong support for the political‚ religious‚ and artistic rights of the individual‚ including the power of his or her mind. In the 1802 preface to Lyrical Ballads‚ Wordsworth explained the relationship between the mind and poetry.
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ROMANTICISM Philosophical Foundation (Summary) Proponent: The Principle of Natural Goodness Philosophical Foundations of Romanticism • Earl of Shaftesbury’s View of natural goodness • Herder’s organic view of History • Post-Kantian German philosophers’ epistemological concerns • Burke’s inquiries into the sublime and the beautiful • Percy’s Researches in the Folk literature • Walpole’s and Volney’s Concern with the past • Goethe’s celebration
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links a. suttonhoo.org b. staffordshirehoard.org.uk c. labyrinth.georgetown.edu II. The Middle Ages A. The Canterbury Tales‚ GP etext#2383 1. General Prologue 2. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 3. “The Pardoner’s Tale” B. Popular Lyrics and Ballads C. Everyman GP etext#19481‚ Ernest Phelps‚ ed. D. Supplementary links a. luminarium.org/medlit b. labyrinth.georgetown.edu III. Shakespeare GP etext#100 A. Macbeth B. Hamlet C. The Taming of the Shrew D. Much Ado About Nothing E
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Lee‚ The Old Huntsman‚ With an incident in which he was concerned’ is a poem by William Wordsworth. Written in 1798 (Anthology p420)‚ ’Simon Lee’ was one of the poems included by Wordsworth in his Lyrical Ballads. The purpose or meaning of this poem is debatable‚ but in his own Preface to the Lyrical Ballads‚ Wordsworth says that he wishes to ’follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when agitated by the great and simple affections of our nature’ in the case of Simon Lee‚ ’by placing my reader in
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)‚ an early leader of romanticism in English poetry‚ ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. William Wordsworth was born in Cookermouth‚ Cumberland‚ on April 7‚ 1770‚ the second child of an attorney. Unlike the other major English romantic poets‚ he enjoyed a happy childhood under the loving care of his mother and in close intimacy with his younger sister Dorothy (1771-1855). As a child‚ he wandered exuberantly through the lovely
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has made is in the field of poetic theory. He thinks that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”‚ and poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”. His poetic principles are well illustrated in the preface to Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth‚ p.159): “The principal object‚ then‚ which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life‚ and to relate or describe them‚ throughout‚ as far as possible‚ in a selection of language
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