and then, frightened by the violence, cooled his enthusiasm for civil unrest. Afterward, nature became his primary focus. You can see the influence in three of his most famous dictums about poetry--beginning with an antipathy against "gaudy and inane phraseology." A poem, Wordsworth says, should be a selection of "incidents and situations from common life." A poem should be composed in a "language really spoken by men." And, finally, "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: Wordsworth's focus on inner life and nature has lasting influence on poetry
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