William Wordsworth And The Poet Of Poetry By William Wordsworth

Wordsworth or “the Muse of Poetry” also known as “a priest of Nature”, says:

“The light of setting sun, And the round ocean, and the blue sky, The living air and the mind of man”

At the turn of the 18th and the 19th centuries, romanticism came to be the new trend in English literature. William Wordsworth, the representative poet of Romanticism, whose poems took on greater significance, brought a totally new and fresh stream of air to the European literary field. English poetry before Wordsworth was the poetry of town and drawing room but Wordsworth drew the attention of the readers towards hills, skies and stars, rivers and trees. Without ever getting morbid like Rousseau, Wordsworth adopted the philosopher’s slogan of “Return to nature”.

His whole life had a close connection with nature—the permanent subject sung highly by human being. Wordsworth was called by Shelly “Poet of nature”. He, too, called himself “A Worshiper of Nature”. He held a firm faith that nature could enlighten the kindheartedness and universal brotherhood of human being, and only exist in harmony with nature where man could get true happiness.

Wordsworth believed that God and his divine spirit pervaded the entire. It is in the thought of God that the universe exists. He emphasized the moral influence of Nature. He spiritualized Nature and regarded her as a great moral teacher, as the best mother, guardian and nurse of man. He believed that between man and Nature there is mutual consciousness,