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incorporated human passions with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.

feeling and instinct above formality and mannerism.

poetry should access emotions constrained in memory.

emphasis on feeling, simplicity, and the pleasure of beauty over rhetoric ornament.

telling concrete stories of their lives.

wrote in simple language of the common people rather than lofty and elaborate diction.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion. First published in 1708 (1800-1802 different editions written). Lyrical Ballads – story told in verse usually meant to be sung.Originally sung by the accompaniment of a lyre. Lyric Poetry – expresses a great range of speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings (elegy-ode-sonnet are all lyric forms).Iambic pentameter (sonnets), iambic tetrameter, and iambic trimester with varying rhyme schemes.Relics of Wordsworth’s rustic childhood.Images/metaphors mixed with natural scenery.Stressed importance of childhood in adult psyche (from childhood some memory of the former purity and glory in which they live remains in adulthood – this is best perceived in the solemn and joyous relationship between child and nature.).This caused a revolution in English literature – formulated his own understanding of the world and human mind.(This clashed with a softer more emotional side). Troubled by Rationalism, Industrialism, and the French Revolution.

Played outdoors in what he remembered as pure communion with nature.