preface to lyrical ballads by william wordsworth

In the year 1793, Wordsworth’s first, published poetry with the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive, Sketches. Poetry for him was primarily the record of a certain kind, of state of mind, and the value of poetry for him lay in the value of the state of, mind which the poem recorded., THE PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS, Lyrical Ballads was not Wordsworth’s first publication he has started, publishing poetry from 1793 onwards. The well-known characteristics of his revolutionary, artistic achievements are his objections to an over-stylized poetic diction, his, attitude to Nature, his choice of simple incidents and humble people as, subjects for his poetry. Wordsworth (1770 –1850) brought a completely new approach to the, writing of English poetry. His first publication was a sonnet in The European, Magazine back in 1787., Wordsworth was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in, 1850. John’s, College in Cambridge from where he received his B.A. In 1778, after the death of his mother, his father sent him to Hawkshead, Grammar School in Lancashire. Noted, poet and diarist, Dorothy Wordsworth was his sister, younger to him by only a, year. He was also introduced to Milton, Shakespeare and Spencer through his father’s library quite early in his life. His mother taught him to, read while he attended various local schools.

1,, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth was a world-acclaimed English poet who was born, on the 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in North-west England., Second of the five children to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, poetry was, infused in him right from the beginning by his father.

Preface to lyrical ballads by william wordsworth