Wordsworth vs. Blake?

Question

How are these two poets different from each other? How can you find that in their writings? Any precise information will be good.

In a Vs. situation it isn't incorrect to say how are they different instead of a compare and contrast statement... and second you didn't answer my question... you gave me a couple of sites. Can you comprehend what I am asking?

The second guy that answered gave a correct response.

Ok... that is definitely incorrect. What you said before "compare" would have been incorrect too because I clearly said different which triggers "contrast" if anything in that context... Vs. does not always apply in competition. Even if it did, my question would still make sense because I was talking about the ideas that they had not them actually in competition with each other. I like the effort though... I guess.

Answer 1

No offense Lee but you might have said "compare".

In a Vs. Situation I'd bet Blake every time.

http://poetry.about.com/od/18thcpoets/p/blake.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordsworth

Poet Laureate or not, (Wordsworth), I would have hung out at Blakes studio, for multiple reasons.

Steven Wolf

I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ASKED, AND VS. is incorrect. It suggests "in competition", and they never were.
Perhaps in Poetry, Arrogance is acceptable???

"Erleichda"

Ah, Good. "Contrast" I can equate to. Thank you. Wordsworth was unquestionably a "wordsmith" in a romantic sense; obviously awarded his late in life title, for his efforts.
I just happen to more enjoy Blake because in his time he was considered more abstract (New age maybe) than was traditional, and too was a pretty decent artist. His Mythological perspectives were a bit on the fringe of what might have been digestable at the time; Hence "I" would have more enjoyed "hangin at his place"

AND it really is OK to agree to disagree, or provoke debate. Kudos.

Answer 2

Blake thinks the world is entirely a matter of our projection upon it. In "Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth writes that we "half perceive, half create" the world. Blake would have said, no, no. It's all create.

Also Wordsworth was big on giving you philosophy, here's how nature works upon us, here's our place in nature, telling you what to think, etc. Blake doesn't really do this. He wants to say, slow down, things are complicated, there's always two (or more) ways to think of things, that's why the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" so often give you two different poems about the same thing -- The Nurse's Song, for example. Blake just didn't have that desire that Wordsworth did to create a kind of totalizing philosophy.