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Conclusion
Contributions of William Wordsworth to Romantic Poetry can be broadly classified in two parts. First, the impact he had on the literary merits, and second, the influence he had on his contemporaries and future poets.
In the first part, William Wordsworth is known as the master of Romantic Poetry for his literary brilliance, depiction of emotions, personifying human life with nature, and propagation of a way of living that called everyone back to nature. It is this impact on Romanticism, which makes Wordsworth arguably the greatest poet of the Romantic Age.
Secondly, the influence he has had on his contemporaries and the future generation of romantic poets is immense. Almost all the great poets of the Romantic Age were either directly or indirectly influenced by Wordsworth’s works, his way of thinking, and his level of artistry. This gave a rise to an oceanic flow of poetry, which identified itself with nature, beauty, earthen life, and natural living.
To conclude, Wordsworth praiseworthy contribution to British Romantic poetry mostly outweighs his contribution to literary criticism. Although he is an avant-gardist literary critic dealing with theoretical problems of literary criticism in his time, his Preface to Lyrical Ballads has remained insufficiently known for the reading public. In fact, it is a prescriptive literary text which declares some certain rules about task of the poet, the origin of poetry, the subject matter of poetry, and the language of poetry. It defines the poetry, the poet, and task of the poet in a normative way. Wordsworth’s arguments can be acknowledged or rejected for several different reasons but his definitions and classifications are mostly original. In this way, Wordsworth constructs the Romantic standpoint in literary criticism step by step throughout the text. He presents his agreements and disagreements with Neo-Classical theory of literary criticism in light of his relevant arguments. In brief, Wordsworth’s manifesto consists of original theoretical judgments deserving to be scrutinized constantly by literary critics from different perspectives in order to understand transformation of literary criticism from past to today.
Hopefully this article on the poem’s background helps you understand why Wordsworth wrote the poem and how it reflects changing attitudes towards nature and the individual. We can now also see that the poem was more radical than it might appear.
In the next lesson we will discuss how the poem engages with contemporary theories about what might be considered beautiful and sublime.