Wordsworth's most famous poem, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" was included as the last item in his collection of "Lyrical Ballads." The poem expresses the author's nearly pantheistic love of nature and his longing for humanity's eventual reunification with the natural world. ... Early in the poem, the author focus resides upon the physical and aethetic pleasures that surround. ...
Other famous poetry belonging to the same era also qualify as Romantic poetry based on the same definition, but none quite so fully as The World Is Too Much With Us. ... In this poem, Wordsworth idealizes nature at the same time he expresses his disapproval of mankind. ... As the poem progresses; however, the mood of the poem improves as Coleridge continues to fantasize over what all his friends might encounter on their walk. ... The rhyming scheme utilized in the poem is also uniquely Whitman's. ... Even still, the last two listed poems are still definitively recognized as examples of R...
Other famous writers of this time include Thomas Paine, who wrote THE CRISIS, NO.1; Patrick Henry, author of SPEECH TO THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION; and Thomas Jefferson, writer of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ... Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MOBY DICK. ... Holmes is known for the poem OLD IRONSIDES. ... The most well-known writer of thi...
Program music is "the term for a nonvocal music that is associated with a poem, a story, or some other literary source; the literary text itself is the program. ... Another famous work in which this new form of music was displayed is Mozart's Don Giovanni. ...
Like other romantic poets, Byron often used highly structured and rigid traditional forms to craft his poems (Knight 208). ... By writing, he also encouraged people to pay attention to the Edinburgh Reviewer's--an influential Whig Journal--actions of crucial criticism and strictness about expressing feeling sincerely in poems (MacCarthy 82). ... Lord Byron's first publicized work was Fugitive Pieces, a series of poems that he, himself paid to print (Slovey and Haerens 67). This work was criticized by Byron's close contemporaries for its eroticism and because of this he suppres...
