Question

What did William Wordsworth contribute to our modern world?

Answer 1

William Wordsworth was a very popular English romantic poet; he was one of the two poets to start “Romantic Age” in England, with their collective work Lyrical Ballads. He is a representative poet of the Romantic age in English Literature. The movement which fell away from the classic way of writing poetry, it is important to understand that Romanticism means taking “Liberty”. Wordsworth along with Coleridge redefined English Literature in 1798 publishing, jointly, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads", the collection of poems has a Prologue which explains their whole idea behind this Romantic Movement. Another great feature of Wordsworth's contribution lies in the fact of his understanding of Nature. He delighted in Nature, its beauty and all that it offers. A lot of his work focuses on Nature and his close relationship with it.