William Wordsworth’s works are as solid as they are daring, and there are many. Through his unique perception of Nature, creation, and his relationship to these ideas, Wordsworth carries the poetic implications of Romantic Nature above and beyond other poets of his kind; He goes on to criticize the dogmas of the Christian faith in […]
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In comparing Romantic writers such as William Blake, Robert Burns, and William Wordsworth, one realizes that, while Nature is a common element found in all three of these writers’ works, it is represented in quite different ways. This article will summarize how these writers choose to display to the reading audience grandeur of Nature and […]
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Tintern, Jewel of the Vale of Woe. In the sweetest Welsh valley they crept between the banks of the meadow near the river Wye, the ruins of Tintern Abbey. In Monmouthshire, Wales, Tintern’s ethereal appearance captures the imagination. I once had the privilege of visiting the Cistercian ruins, and clearly understood why that sacred place […]
William Wordsworth is considered one of the founders of Romantic poetry, and was a major influence on the movement known as Romanticism. His poems were written for the common people, about the common people, and after the manner of nature. Two of the most famous famous poems, “Michael: A Pastoral Poem”, which was the last […]
The use of time and memory in poetry are two of the most consistent themes in the works of the Roman poets. Two of these poets, John Keats and William Wordsworth, use these themes in some of their most famous works of poetry. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats describes a pastoral portrait painted […]
For those in the 18th century who read poetry, there existed an idea called The Sublime, which had to deal with the feeling(s) a reader, or often someone in person, got when experiencing the natural world. There were two parts to this philosophy: the Dynamic, and the Mathematical. The Dynamic, for example, was “felt” upon […]
Although William Wordsworth shuddered at the thought of being included with many modern romantic poets, yet Imagination, or Blake, as he understood it as a spiritual revelation, shared faith with William Blake, published poetry, and gave it latitude. Both poets saw a redemptive power in the Imagination, and gave this work their untimely need. The […]
In the modern romantic age literature moves toward an exploration of feelings. Ancient and Classical texts tended to focus on the questions of why are we? Medieval texts tended to explore where will we end up? In the Renaissance and Early Modern times texts moved to questions of the individual, how they think, and how […]