Describe Wordsworth as a 19th century poet.What were some main themes in his writing? How is that seen through Tintern Abbey as well as his other...

Eighteenth -century , with Dryden and Pope witnessed , the criticism of the society .Man was the object of poetry .Ther were pre-dominating influence of heroic-couplet , choice of diction ,etc .There began a reaction from the heart of the age of Pope ,-neoclassical age .Gray , Thomson , Burn and Blake , hearlded romantic revival .And in 1798,The Lyrical Ballads , published by Wordsworth ,and Coledrige , officially established the advent of the 19th -century romantic poetry .

As a poet of the three decades of 19th- century , Wordsworth occupies a permanent place .He becomes a link between man and Nature .His theory of writing poetry with rustics -words , and the language of the average , rose a controversy .Again , the idea as ,-there is no difference between the language of prose and that of poetry , came up as a new concept .From 1800-1834, Wordsworth had his sway over the contemporary English -literature .With the beginning of the Victorian age , romantic-poetry did not fade away .The new poetry was a mixture of necromantic and neo classic

.Wordsworth was still appealing , and to the second  -half of the19th century he retained his spell.