William Wordsworth의 시와 Dorothy의 저널

Abstract

William Wordsworth is a great Romantic poet of man and nature in the 19th century. He speaks the pleasure and ecstasy in nature. The purpose of this study is to throw light on William Wordsworth's real process of the poetic production and his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth who had an influence on it. William wrote that Poetry is the image of man and nature in his Preface of Lyrical Ballads. He also noted that 'Poetry is the "spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions" when these emotions are "recollected in tranquility".' He called it imagination. His creative imagination started with his "memories" which were full of emotion. Dorothy Wordsworth wrote a lot of works as a writer in Romanticism. But the studies on Dorothy Wordsworth are based on the relationship to her brother, William Wordsworth. There has been no discussion regarding her as a writer. Dorothy Wordsworth's journals gave William Wordsworth chances to remember his experiences again. William wrote many poems from these memories. Dorothy's journals have profound implications for William's theories of poetic production contained in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads and his poems. At this point, it can be thought that William Wordsworth used Dorothy's memories. And in addition to her influence on him through memory, she can be insisted to be an aspiring writer and poet who wrote good poems independently of her brother, William. Through a reading of Dorothy's poetry and prose, I hope to reevaluate her texts as independent works of literature.