INTRODUCTION : AUTHOR AND HIS wORK

WILIAM wORDS wORTH (1110 18 50) -

Wiiam Words worh o one qthe great est po et oEnqlan d whose

terary urihuom signalled the break wih he eanlien heo-dassical
rad hon and he beqinning t h e Roman hc movem ent. He was m6Te a
poet than a ihc and wrbte a neu kind poey dealing wih the

hatre rahen han man. He used the simple naturallanguag oomm

people and ondem ned the people othe town

anh haal lanquaqe o
Hio uihum onsubs oAdverisement to the Lyrical allads (1918)

Pre Paa to Lurical Balads 0800), Prekace to Lurical Ballads (1802) H e

and behore
began
beqan wrihng poehy young boy in gamm an 4chool
a a 9

whih
opa duahnq hom oleqe he went on a walkinq tour o turope 9

deepened hu love nature and hu sum pathy kor he on omm man

bob major themes in hio poeky. Wordswor h best knouwn or Lyrical

Ball ads CD-wnitten with Samuel Tayler Coleridae and The Preude,

hroni di ng he mind.
a Rom an hc epic poem gsowh a poek's In 1843
Wordsworh was h am ed poet Laure te o tngland though by thio time
he had the most pant qut om posinq verse .He revised and Te-

hu poeems pubished various edihons and entertain ed litera

arranged
queots an d Piends When he died in 1850 he had for some yeans been

ven erated a a
sage hu most and ent dehadors gloss ung lo ss unq

Over the radi cal Ti qins ho poetics and pouhcs

Lyrical Ballads is a o uechon o poems by Words worth and
Col eridge ,in the Rrst edihon oP which he kied explain what he was
dounq In it he staled that he matenial
opoeky can be
kound
weru subjectg which untrests ewery human mind and
explauned tha
 to certain
the poems in the colle ch on enp enim en ts written dhi elu
ane
and lower dasses
how an the lanquage oonvers ahio n in the middle
In the
is adapted to the purpos eo poehu pleas ure
sodety
Prekace to the 6econd edihon o the Ballads
Lyrical pub lished un
with an oppendi , he el abor ates hu onups poeky and poeh
18o0
to
dichon. These were Further ruised and enlarqed un the Prekace
over-

edjhop. In hu eaqe ness to dehend hio casehe at hmes

the 1802
wntradi ch on s
stated hu heoYi e ten Teo ulted un vaque ness and
nature and
its beauhy
to hat ure", They woship
Their mo to wasbadk

he beauhy nature
turned to vilage ue and explained
They o Lurical Ballads
o Prehae
And here ane kow pants
Simple lan quags
The Poet and The Poery
Contenb Lanquage,
prebaceswordsw atb adso wrote Essay
Besides the
Epitaphs
and hu
three eosauys upon
Suplementary to he prekae, seond
to the
its drau) ba dkS, he prejae
Despite many
COTTespondance. akind oroman he
1800 w a s
pubished in
edihon,Lyrical Ballads oF
oan epressive tbeory
and a
memorable statement
mani kesto
poey
 THE PRE FACE (80 2)

onsiders he rejace an inauqurahon fo his poems

wiliam wordsworth to
WordswovHhis intenhon is
poey
Yaber han a deence ohuo theoru o
the hme o read and acept
hanged pattern ot poey the
his Teaders
give Wordswetths
im pant h
intenhon is fo im pant h
verse ver

Romanhc poes.
ushered by the nat ure
would ace the prime lawe ohum an
intereshnq manner that
un 1798,He
uan
irst publshed
To the urical Balladsa collechon ot po ems arqusn ent

which briegly
stated h primary
added brie Forew and
a
un natwe and
were exp
enim
ental
Wordsworh onsiders that hu poems ommon

themeo ane
taken om
the
wao to hnd out whe her f
ts purpos e would be &utable
people
Gfe an d om posed n he language oTeal

poey step forw an d n

inko duunq
dered as a reuoluhonary
The rekace is onsi
ane based on
Gterature hese vi ews on poeky
to wold
Komanh c Poeky he
nature and the wse oommon Feeunqgs and
lan quage
a love
been called word sworths best known w
The rekace ha
Common man.
be read and
un aesthehcs. 4t wninues to
and hi most oriqin al es
au
Gterature a s wel as o Sucleeding
dioussed in the study Komanhe
and Here, Wordsw o th
and modernigm n poery prose
centuries realis m
he
ha new techniqueo n poey , un
Felt the need to explaun and dehend
to underst and and
would onhinuo
an audien ce who
hope o atfachng
He wrote a Preface ko rst edihon 19o0 and made
ho work
appre date
1802 version ormed he baoo hrbin al
Yevisions hroughout ho fe. The
lhe itle was hever chanqed ,qiving it a 4ense
edihon 1850
Ongoung novelty
 Main ldeas in the Prehace

Poey as a
lanquage o lommon 'eople

The
Ihe essa
essau provides Wordsworth's explanahon jor he new fype
un the
poehy he pubished in 1798. He Lonhinued to revise the feace
Funher Yecognihon
hope gaining a lanqer readnq audiene and
by oher iters He rejeds previous onvenhonal approa ches to
the onnechon he vaues
Gterature a emohonally basren ,overloo king
ommam people
and the poet 's
between he houohts and languag
auessible lewel. He
a he Same
abiluty to hansmit the experiene
to o ther
one persm
6peaks poey as
exishing om the poet as
5ome
wih munimal or no iotermediars need ed . He rewqnises
persons
ohensive uould need
Yekinement any thing cane nsidered vulgur o

exuot. As roman h c
revising but Oherwise no real barri ers need a

Words wth values he humble , Yubhe , way oounyholk people who

d the kulh oq nawe Their
he believ eo hawe directly expenien

be ansmitt ed in poehy that incudes the same

can
expeni enu
dire tness hat he hinds un homoqenous Twa sehog
honesty and

foems be reat e
spring pom he over Ho w genui
ne
telungs Thio
wisdom and then are restal ed in
lead to relechon and a Aimple
to Tere ate he original emo hon The Prekace
ordin ary lanquage
cs
reje cs Telian ce on stand ards aom the dassical or Enbghten ment
reje

eras-Fope and Johnson amonq the Briish poeks he namesbecause

heu overlook the Uve ommon peo ple who speak hunble and

unadorned language
 2 Prose an d Poeky

Devohn9 much att en hon to the dose Lonne.chon

mphasisung
poey with prose Wordsworth shows bttle pahence or ekkors in pas
eras to
to pered standards kor ether poehry or pe prose at the
expense the other. For hun , both share the 4ame purpose
purpose tto

the Gves olivinq

spe
Pea ak plaunly and honestly un lanqu age reledhng
He does not
people and not dose hemselves of to he other orm.
and a
to two opposed approa che
believe supressiOn Poeky prose
same oriq n s
but instead stat eo repeaBe dy Hhey tome nor
nom the

and spivit and showd be auessible at equal levels .

value the factua sdenhhc n

Wordsworth places Gttle on

an
Gterature He o kar more st interea ted n the emoh ons arisnqhom
and
upon,
assimi late d
immediate expenien e th a u laB en reglecded
s0enhfit Dqury and
and
can see he siqni hcanc e inquury
und erstood He
the rutbhs ethe bves
o hu ontem porareo
knowledge,
bu for speaking
between inshnchve uterature and appbed suenhi
he diotan e
keeps a
do esnot unite the
Gterat ure. For Wordsworth ,
thio type oGterature
on a daly basis, buk instead keeps
60 enist with adinary people
he n the first
ofld ofads. wrihoq
a was

hun
hu isolated in a

he 1800's he owdnot antiupaBe the anoromo wo Yole

year o has assUmed 1 n hen
expenimentahi on
teadb researh and
suenhhc
sibiu d
The Prekace ush ers in a hew world oGterary &en
ty an

ah ead that changung world How even ,suenhkcally

k o u s ed o
se ems
nakive .
 Role of the Poet
At the heart
heart the Preacewor dswor h qiveo extende d

re at ment to he role o a poet auordung to the views he has

the
expreas ed on
language and content. The poet is a person
cOmmon people attuned to them and sensihve to theur experien (a,

And a he same hime the poe s0meone un a speua posihon

Wor d sworh explains The Poet Sinqinq a s0nq in which all hum an
he truh visible
beungs joun wh hum Yejoices preo en ce o as oun

The Poet u the "ro d of delen ce kor huma

Riend and
hour y om panion
hat ure 5 an uphol der and a pY es eru er cann yung ew erywhere wth bim

Wordswoh adds The Poe binds toqeh en by

Yelahons and Love.
and all
and knowledge he vast empire e hum an souety
passions
Over hme.
As the newSuenhsts o Wordsworhi hme forq ed ahead in dh emish
The hrst and last o all knowleda
and botan u 50 he poets repres ents
lend hio divinespirit
as immrtal heart oman..Ihe poet will
aud the a n s hiqurah on in o knowleda. But hor Wardswarth and
to
others he hoped to inspire, he role o art stands ar apartom
rOm

6ùen e any kind The poet remauns speual person g an

appued
individual who an take he ordinafy experi en ceo ommcn people

and arh ul aJe those exper ences oh erenty into Pelk passions and

emoh o n s that oudh mral huh and riqht0 eo s

Con troll d on
 4 Importance of Subject Matter

Wordswoth empha sisea why and how he cheos ea the subjeck

or his poems. He seperat es

hu wok nom that of paat agea and

Gteras yy Rqure showng th ey

bterar haue been foo Gtera y by emphaaang
ormal oY dassical models o arhhual wnvenhons. Recth er han the
emoh on al
events he beiewes
Yecor dung atual observahons Y

ruths and to natwre are the keys to provicunq Ydinary

ddunary
fiedüty
Gfe. He favous a
veaders with insighs into theur own condi hons o
huumble and rushc rwral existenu to urban ufe because it setm

Similar and move natural Woadswoth sought to make OYdin any

expeni en ces mere exha dinary and en

dununq
wdswoth say poehy muat aroe fom he spontan ebu
emohons
keelun qs , it tak eo is iqun hom
Overktou powerhul
2) make a &eem
a
poek should po em
colleded in hanqwby Alhovgh
mut Telec emohon
he reahon of it is not.Poe hy
spohtaneo us
observeo
Yecord observahons The poek irst
paosion -not simply
emohon Then he hanquilly
som ehung that createo a
powerbul
emohonDunnq hua the poe may
and regledh and
cont emplat es
rel at to he obser vahon Thsel Y fo paat
Yecall other hung hat
hime and hen
The
The kanqubty contemplahon dinappeas aten c

diotilles all this thoughs eiminah n9

some and keep
and inqq
ke ep in
he
he poet
poet
hat
ated n a way
Others s0 hat he oTiqinal emohon Yere

to write with Hhe

moYe universal in ally he poe o ready
shar the emohion wih an audien ce
au o ing
 CONCLUSION

Ballads
tomposi hon of Poems Un Lyrical
The Chie aums un he

omman Fe
inodens and siu ahons hom
hao been to choose

Over hem a colouri nq o imaqinah on

and at he same hime hrow
to he mund
wowd be preo ented
whereby the ordin ary things written
Ballads wao mainly
Preface to Lurical
an unusual aped omposihon
wor th s
the heory poey gudung Wds
to explaun and subje
Wordsworth deends he unusu al shyle
of he poems
fo see how Far and aurately
the poems a ep enimen s Io the
bee
profound Feeln g l o
could be ued to onv ey
popular poe.y heory poey
and o hence
he wanted fo expreo
Preka and oF the th em es
th and style o
that hecry
a jushh cahon Retuo to nature was their motto. They
Ballads .

poems
n Lyrical bfe and bund
bund rehu ge
rehu ge
arhhual
w ban
wrb an
the
om
awayhom
turned
turned auwa
and nature
GFe
in he Coun hry
he
Hner spint a l l knowle dqe
, it o
breath and
Poehry
Poery
in the ounten
wunten en co
ca
which w
im passioned exprension
all Suence
WILLIA M wORDSWORTH