my presentation

1. M K Bhavnagar University
 NAME – Devluk Drashti M
 Roll No – 11
 M A – 1
 Sem – 1
 Sub – Literary Theory and Criticism.
 Topic – Wordsworth as a Literary Critic
 Year – 2015 - 2016

3.  Born – 7 April 1770
 Died – 23 April 1850
 He belonged toThe Romantic Age in English
Literature.
 His criticism is of far reaching historical
significance.
William Wordsworth

4. William Wordsworth
 He advocated a deliberate choices of subject
from ‘Humble and rustic life’.
 He advocated simplicity both in theme and
treatment.
 Wordsworth started writing in The Neo
Classical Age. He went beyond the Neo
Classical view.

5. Wordsworth as a Critic
 Wordsworth through his literary criticism
demolished the old and the faulty and opens
out new vistas and avenues.
 He was primarily a poet not a critic.
 He wrote lyrical Ballads combine authorship
of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

6. Important Works
 ‘Lyrical Ballads’
 ‘The Excursion’
 ‘ We are Seven’
 ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
 ‘Tintern Abbey’
 ‘The Prelude’
 ‘The ldiot Boy’

7. Wordsworth’s Critical view
 Scom not the sonnet, critic, you have
frowned mindless of it’s just honors; with this
key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
~ William Wordsworth

8. THANK YOU