He reproduced this world with so close and understanding an eye as to add a hitherto unperceived glory to it. For Wordsworth, the great theme remained the world of simple, natural things, in the countryside or among people. This direction characterizes most of the later works of the poet. The poems of Wordsworth in this volume treat ordinary language with a new freshness that imparts a certain radiance to them. The first important expression of romanticism was in the Lyrical Ballads (1798) of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge who were as young men aroused to creative activity by the French Revolution, but later became disillusioned with what followed it. To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply kingship between nature and the the soul of humankind. Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversation blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. Wordsworth, however, was not discouraged, continuing to write poetry that graphically illustrated his principles. Far from conciliating the critics, the "Preface" served only to increase their hostility. Rejecting the contemporary emphasis on form and an intellectual approach that drained poetic writing of strong emotion, he maintains that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Poetry, he asserted, originates from "emotion recollected in tranquility". His premise was that the source of poetic truth is the direct experience of the senses.
In defense of his unconventional theory of poetry, Wordsworth wrote a "Preface" to the second edition of Ballads, which appeared in 1800 (actual date of publication, 1801). Representing a revolt against the artificial classicism of contemporary English verse, Lyrical Ballads, was greeted with hostility by most leading critics of the day. Wordsworth wrote almost all the poems in the volume including memorable "Tintern Abbey" however, Coleridge contributed the famous "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". This work is generally taken to mark the beginning of the romantic movement in English poetry. In the ensuing period, they collaborated on a book of poems entitled "Lyrical Ballad", first published in 1798. The move marked the beginning of a close and enduring friendship between the poets. In 1797 Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfox Den, Somersetshire, near Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey where he had met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an enthusiastic admirer of his early poetic efforts. The poems received little notice, and few copies were sold. These works, although fresh and original in content, reflect the influence of the formal style of 18th Century English poetry. Although Wordsworth had begun to write poetry while still a school boy, none of his poems were published until 1793 when "An Evening Walk" and "Descriptive Sketches" appeared. He developed a keen love of nature as a youth, and during school vacation periods he frequently visited places noted for their scenic beauty. Wordsworth was born on Apin Cockermouth, Cumberland, and educated at Saint John’s College University of Cambridge. He is considered one of the foremost English romantic poets especially as he composed flowing verse on the spirituality of nature and the wonders of human imagination. Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), English poet, one of the most accomplished and influential of England’s romantic poet’s whose theories and style created a new tradition in poetry.
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