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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] VO Introduction to the Study of Literature Julia Lajta-Novak Sandra Mayer 30 March 2012 William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) • a key figure in the Romantic Movement • initially supporter of the French Revolution, later disappointed by its outcomes • “Lake Poets”: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey (Lake District) • Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850 2 William Wordsworth “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1800/1802) The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life , and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men ; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination , whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; ( NAEL II, 241) “My Heart Leaps Up” • First published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) • author, translator, and influential literary critic • close friend of William Wordsworth – co-published the Lyrical Ballads (1798) • depressions, opium addict “... It was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith...” ( Biographia Literaria ) 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |