William Wordsworth Flashcards
The authors of “Lyrical Ballads”
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wordsworth credited nature as being the major _____.
formative influence on his writing
The most poetic achievement of British romanticism is
“The Prelude”
Wordsworth uses the simile of stars to describe the daffodils in _____
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, _____ reflects the romantic dislike of control.
the depiction of poetry’s “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
_____ is the theme or focus of Wordsworth’s contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics
The redirection of the poet’s attention to himself
According to Sonnet 1, the key differences between the child and the adult is the child _____
communes with the nature directly
According to the speaker in “The World is Too Much With Us” what have we exchanged for our hearts?
materialistic cravings are what we have exchanged for our hearts
Lucy’s identity, of the Lucy poems, has _____
never been established and is probably fictional
