William Wordsworth: Romantic’s Ekphrastic Vision and Bard Contemplation

Abstract

Loss, Grief, Trauma – not being defined as medical conditions and professionally
treated within the life scope of the English Romantics – were intuitively approached
and cured through creative storytelling, poetic outpouring of emotions, and ekphrastic
dialogue with representatives of other arts by the creative sufferers in advance of the
attainments ofpsychological science and psychoanalysis in the field. An example of
the national bard William Wordsworth, his way of poetic self-treatment and help to
his contemporaries is considered with a special focus on his later ekphrastic pieces
dedicated to the image of the Bird of Paradise.