Introduction
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Debut
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John`s Colleg
“A simple traditional song or poem for children” (Oxford Dictionaries)
The Difficulty of Defining Nursery Rhymes
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon
Nursery Rhymes and (cynical) jokes
– rebellion against authority
- releasing taboos in polite society
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(1) Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) : "The Darkling Thrush"
"The Darkling Thrush"
1 I leant upon a coppice gate
2 When Frost was spectre-gray,
3 And Winter's dregs made desolate
4 The weakening eye of day.
5 The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
6 Like strings of broken lyres,
7 And all mankind that haunted nigh
8 Ha
The Gates of Hell
By hearing the word “gate” you may remind yourselves of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. It is known that Rodin benchmarked the Gate of Paradise in his earlier concepts. Later he was inspired and influenced by the composition and the layout of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a masterpiece by Michelangelo. There are the hints of influence from both masters as Rodi
My argument in this essay is that, after the French Revolution, the English Romantic self, as represented in several poems of William Wordsworth, goes through a purifying process for its identification, but as represented in the poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, it also goes through a purgatorial process for its annihilation in the later Romantic period. The process for Wordsworth is primarily acco