The soothing effect and the meditative value of Wordsworth’s poems cannot be gainsaid.

  • Wordsworth’s poems are peculiarly attractive because of their simplicity of form and simplicity of subject matters.

  • His ideal society was rustic and simple, the society that is not tainted by the artificiality of civilization.

  • It is a prominent characteristic of Wordsworth’s poems that they appear to grow out of his own personal history. Thus the “Evening Walk,” the Descriptive Sketches,” and “The Prelude,” partake more or less of an autobiographical character. The same thing may be said of a large number of his minor poems…