William Wordsworth

Question 1

What is Lyrical Ballard?

Answer 1

Collective volume of poets written with Samual Taylor Colebridge credited as stating the English Romanticism

Question 2

What did Lyrical Ballard express?

Answer 2

Glorified emotion over reason and expressed deep awe for the natural world as a response to the Industrial Revolution and reliance on scientific inquiry

Question 3

What was Wordsworth relationship with revolution?

Answer 3

Chaotic European History during the French Revolution which inspired him but he was disillusioned with the excesses of the Rein of terror with the French Republic beheading political prisoners

Question 4

Describe Englands crises during this time

Answer 4

King George 3 health deteriorated and George 4 was installed as prince regent whose self indulgent behaviour were seen as an insult to rural people who endured years of famine in the early 19th century

Question 5

When was Tinterny Abbey written?

Answer 5

1798 as the final poem in the collection of Lyrical Ballard

Question 6

Why did Lyrical Ballard criticise poetry?

Answer 6

Criticised the elitist and pretentious forms of poetry in England and wanted to mimic ordinary human speech and could be real and appreciated by ordinary people

Question 7

What philosopher gave ideas to Lyrical Ballard?

Answer 7

Jean Jacques Rousseau emphasised the value of the indicidual human being

Question 8

What two historical movements are central to Tintern Abbey?

Answer 8

French Revolution - 1789 bought the vision of true. rise of the Paris and Commune and subsequent Rise of Terror
Industrial Revolution - shared the belief with Roussea that society is corrupting the human spirit and destroying the natural world

Question 9

What ideas are explored in ode intimations of immortality?

Answer 9

Human soul, transcendent beauty and importance of deep feeling

Question 10

Was Wordsworth beliefs strictly religious?

Answer 10

Ideas of natures holiness and externalness of the soul go beyond the Christian framework, delving into a nondenominational belief of pantheism. So God is in everything and everything is in god

Question 11

What did Western thinkers see pantheism as?

Answer 11

Antidote to institutionalised Christian dogma what had become oppressive and legalistic