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.