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A Study on Wordsworth ’ s Miscellaneous Sonnets

Later Wordsworth’s principal form of utterance was ‘sonnet.’ His sonnets can be divided between ‘nature’ group and ‘philosophy’ group; the representative of the first is The River Duddon and that of the second is Ecclesiastical Sonnets. However, there is a third group, Miscellaneous Sonnets, which is not a ‘sequence’ in its strict sense but a ‘collection’ of separate poems of various themes. The overall significance of the Miscellaneous Sonnets can be more easily comprehended when we regroup and approach the poems with their separate inner themes—those of ‘nature,’ ‘literature,’ and ‘religion.’ First, Wordsworth’s views on nature are summarized as opposition to city (artificiality), search for integration with nature, praise on nature, and the ultimate sense of latent fear in nature. Second, his views on literature are summed up as the initial belief in imagination and freedom, the next self-restraint with humbleness and modesty, and the final solution through fusing literature and divinity. Third, the poet’s views on life and religion are outlined as the sense of fear and limitation in life, the need of integration and permanence, and the ultimate conviction in future life and divine communion.Miscellaneous Sonnets, with its diverse and profound ‘moral’ utterances whose literary values are recognized anew, can be labelled as an ‘epitome of Wordsworth’s literature.’