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William Wordsworth as Philosophical Escapist:
A Critical Evaluation

Dr. Mohammad Shaukat Ansari


William Wordsworth
Courtesy: https://www.biography.com/people/william-wordsworth-9537033

Abstract

William Wordsworth was a prolific voluminous writer and few poets stand in comparison to him. He is far more than a member of any movement; through his supreme poetic expression of some of the greatest English poets. As a profoundest interpreter of Nature in all poetry, his feeling goes beyond the mere physical and emotional delight of Chaucer and the Elizabethans. For him, Nature is direct manifestation of the Divine Power, which seems to him to be everywhere immanent in her.

The present paper deals with the tendencies of escapism in Wordsworth’s poetry. In addition, it aims to prove that Wordsworth, under the tremendous influence of ‘Pantheism’, ‘French Revolution’, “Rousseau’s philosophy’ and ‘Godwin’s outlook’, took his tenets from the deep-rooted convictions of the day and gave them the authenticity of personal experience and vitality of the poetic expression. As a matter of fact, Wordsworth regarded himself with Coleridge as a philosophical poet and his philosophy according to his confessions, was hewn out of his own experiences and entitled him to the position of teacher of society which he was anxious to achieve and maintain.

Keywords: Wordsworth, Ecological, doctrine, emotion, escapism, humanity, imagination, intellect, Nature, philosophical, poetic expression, romanticism, sensibility, spontaneous, tendencies, transcendental

Romanticism

The term ‘Romanticism’ stands for several things together. It has been associated with the word ‘romances’ of the medieval period which had a certain feeling of remoteness and a far-away atmosphere particularly regarding the landscape: feats of daring and bravery; chivalry, belief in supernatural charms and magic; woman worship, etc. In Romantic era, even death was romantic; it was considered a beautiful land of dreams where one could escape the harshness, troubles and greyness of reality. When one sleeps, one dreams and in death one would be dreaming forever, eternally united with Nature. In life, Romantic poets were sad, melancholic, disappointed, alienated, lonely, burdened with social injustices, and powerless against established social and moral norms, and the only comfort and sweetness they could get was sleep; dreams. Hence, originally the word “romantic” signified the qualities in these semi-historical cycles, such as, “far-fetched and opposed to fact.”

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Dr. Mohammad Shaukat Ansari
Associate Professor of English
M.L.S.M. College
Darbhanga 846004
Bihar
India
shaukata12@yahoo.com

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