摘要：

华兹华斯(1770-1850)和陶渊明(365-472)是中英诗坛上杰出的田园诗人。 华兹华斯被雪莱称为“讴歌自然的诗人”，他主张人类应回归自然，以恢复人类的自然本性，拯救人类的心灵。华兹华斯是英国文学史上继弥尔顿和莎士比亚之后最为重要的诗人。陶渊明，开创中国田园诗歌一派。他决定在回归自然中追求精神自由和内心的平静， 远离尘嚣。本文主要探讨两位诗人的异同点，以求更好的了解双方的写作特点，加深对田园诗的理解。

关键词：华兹华斯，陶渊明，田园诗，异同点

Abstract:

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Tao Yuanming (365-427) are respectively the most outstanding pastoral poets in English and Chinese literature. Wordsworth was regarded as the greatest poet after Chaucer and Shakespeare in English literature. He was ‘A poet of nature’. He holds that humans should return to nature to restore the simplicity of mind and to rescue man’s corrupted soul. Tao Yuanming, the founder of the Chinese pastoral school, is considered the greatest pastoral poet in the history of Chinese literature. He proposed the innate disposition to pursue the natural course of life. Tao Yuanming decided to return to the tranquil country life from the hustle and bustle world. The paper discusses the similarities and differences in Wordsworth’s and Tao Yuanming’s pastoral poetry in several aspects, so as to do a better understanding of their pastoral poems. 
Key Words: 

Key words: Wordsworth; Tao Yuanming; pastoral poems; similarities and differences

Introduction
William Wordsworth and Tao Yuanming, two great pastoral poets, are the greatest poets in English and Chinese history. Even they are from different countries and times, they share the love of the tranquility of the rural life, the love of the beauty of nature. This paper aims to analyze pastoral poems of Wordsworth and Tao Yuanming.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. His early years were dominated by his experience of the countryside around the Lake District and the English moors. Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister, served as his early companion until their mother’s death and their separation when he was sent to school. He gradually focused on nature and began to write about pastoral poems.