tailieunhanh - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 15: Wordswoth as a romantic critic

Wordsworth was the first to give a new turn to discussion as the nature of poetry by connecting it with feeling and making it dependent upon imagination. His views on language and poetic diction are even more strikingly were so original,indeed that they provoked much criticism when they were first produced. | WORDSWOTH AS A ROMANTIC CRITIC Wordsworth was the first to give a new turn to discussion as the nature of poetry by connecting it with feeling and making it dependent upon imagination. His views on language and poetic diction are even more strikingly were so original,indeed that they provoked much criticism when they were first produced. Wordsworth tries to bridge the gulf between prose and verse. Later Wordsworth pleads that prose and metrical compositions make use of the same material,namely words and phrases and speak to a same sense. Meter adds no novel distinction to the language such a distinction emanates only from passionate use of language and is thus generic not specific. Words of prose and poetry are not clearly demarcated so the words which can be used in prose can find place in poetry and vice versa. Wordsworth makes it clear that the use of meter in poetry is different from the use of poetic diction. Meter obeys certain rules where as poetic diction is . | WORDSWOTH AS A ROMANTIC CRITIC Wordsworth was the first to give a new turn to discussion as the nature of poetry by connecting it with feeling and making it dependent upon imagination. His views on language and poetic diction are even more strikingly were so original,indeed that they provoked much criticism when they were first produced. Wordsworth tries to bridge the gulf between prose and verse. Later Wordsworth pleads that prose and metrical compositions make use of the same material,namely words and phrases and speak to a same sense. Meter adds no novel distinction to the language such a distinction emanates only from passionate use of language and is thus generic not specific. Words of prose and poetry are not clearly demarcated so the words which can be used in prose can find place in poetry and vice versa. Wordsworth makes it clear that the use of meter in poetry is different from the use of poetic diction. Meter obeys certain rules where as poetic diction is arbitrary and capricious. In the preface,Wordsworth has defended meter on the grounds. (i)It adds charm and pleasure to the language. (ii)Poems written upon humble subjects and in a more naked and simple language than the poets own compositions have continued to give pleasure from generation to generation. (iii) The end of poetry is to produce the statement of excitement ideas and feelings do not follow each other in the accustomed retrains and tempers the eciteest. (iv)Pathetic and painful situation can b rendered more effectively in rhyme than in prose. (v)It imparts a dream like quality to the poem because of which the pain seems remote and more endurable. (vi)It imparts passion to the words and makes the reader experience appropriate feelings of pleasure. (vii) We derive pleasure from perception of similarity in use of meter provides the element of contrast. PREFACE TO THE LYRICAL BALLADE Wordsworth wrote the preface with a view to provide a