William Wordsworth's as a Romantic poet
William Wordsworth 's poetry exhibits Romantic characteristics and for his treatment towards romantic elements, he stands supreme and he can be termed a Romantic poet on a number of reasons. The Romantic Movement of the early nineteenth century was a revolt against the classical tradition of the eighteenth century; but it was also marked by certain positive trends. Wordsworth was, of course, a pioneer of the Romantic Movement of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Lyrical Ballads , the new trends become more or less established. However, the reasons for why Wordsworth can be called a Romantic poet are given below: Imagination: Where the eighteenth century poets used to put emphasis much on �wit�, the romantic poets used to put emphasis on �imagination�. Wordsworth uses imagination so that the common things could be made to look strange and beautiful through the play of imagination. In his famous �Intimation Ode", it seems to his as to the child "the earth, a...