Ecological Harmony in William Wordsworth's Selected Poems

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), who is variously called the 'harbinger of Nature', the 'high priest of Nature' and the 'worshipper of Nature', was a major English Romantic poet. He is considered as a forerunner of English Romanticism. He was England's poet laureate from 1843 till his death in 1850. And historically speaking, Wordsworth lived in the age of Britain's Industrial Revolution, which apparently left a great influence on him. He was greatly disappointed with the adverse impacts of industrialization on Nature and man. So he composed a substantial number of poems to promote equality and harmony between Nature and human beings. His poems prove his ecological and environmental concerns. Therefore, this paper is an effort to analyze Wordsworth's selected poems like "Lines Written in Early Spring" (1798), "The Tables Turned" (1798), "The World is Too Much With Us" (1807) and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1807) in the light of ecological study in order to shed light on relationship between Nature and man.