His fascination with mortality shows up in his poetry, The Lucy Poems, for instance are a series of poems about a young girl who may or may not been a figment of Wordsworth imagination who ultimately dies. ... Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... His vision was to create poetry that reunited readers with true emotions and feelings. ... Along with the setting he wanted you to feel this breeze rub against your skin which creates a sense of peace and tranquility that this sig...

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Romantic poetry was initially a reaction against the Neo-classicist form of poetry, which was strongly rooted in the structure laid down by the Greeks and Romans in Classic or Classicist poetry. ... It is in the fourth stanza that notion of wine as a means of getting closer to nature is discarded, instead, it is suggested that the disparity between self and nature can be lessened by imagination and poetry. ... The nature presented in Romantic poetry is viewed as an escape from the ugly, over-bearing industrial world that the poets believed stifled the individuals it contained. ...

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The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth basically encapsulates the definition of Romanticism in 19th century poetry as a result of Wordsworth adherence in the writing of this poem to most every aspect involved in the formation of that definition. 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. ... Romantic Poetry in the 19th Century Romanticism in the 19th century came about as a result of circumstances peculiar to the era, such as changes in philosophy, religious d...

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Though the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. ... The reader is irresistibly attracted by the splendor of his style which combines the best elements of prose and poetry. ... Wordsworth and Coleridge's sense of the emancipatory opportunities brought in by the new historical moment was expressed in their Lyrical Ballads (1798), which revolutionized the theory and practice of poetry. ... In keeping with the view that poetry emphasizes the poet's feelings, the lyric became a major Romantic for...

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Most of the Romantic poets, or poets influenced by Romanticism, lodged a sort of social protest within their poetry. ... Hopkins became a Jesuit priest and a parish preacher and he burned all his poetry up to this point. It was only until four years later, after studying the writings of Duns Scotus a Medieval thinker, that he started writing poetry again. ... Thankfully this was to pass and he did write poetry again. ... Hopkins's questioning and departure from Romantic views can be seen when contrasted with other Romantic poetry. ...

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John Keats was a respected English writer from the Romantic Era, specifically known for his poetry. ... "One of the most popular themes of Romantic poetry was country life, otherwise known as pastoral poetry. ... Romanticism was characterized in poetry through writers using their imagination to take them to a better place. ... In history prior to the Romantic Era there were very strict rules and expectations when it came to poetry structure and content. ... This freedom allowed authors like John Keats to express themselves through their poetry like they had never been able to before. ...

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This thick, sugary, praise is highly typical of Yeats" early poetry and his inherited spirit of the general romantic style. ... The romantic pond from which much of his early poetry spawned became dry. ... During this period where Yeats" poetry resembled unrequited loves, human nature under went a fundamental change. ... The music of art and poetry. ... These ambigous stichings of poetry are a long way drawn from the pleasant overtones of his youth. ...

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One of the more popular war poets is Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), who began his career as a poet sometime before the War, and whose earlier style of writing, observed in poems like 'Sonnet Written At Teigmouth, On A Pilgrimage To Keats's House' (1911) was derived from that the Romantic ideology, which stated that poetry 'should be personal (to the point of appearing confessional), sincere (which meant limitations on satire and humor) and richly loaded with imagery' (Purkis 82.) However, after enlisting in the army and experiencing firsthand the atrocities of warfare, O...

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's "Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics," is greatly influenced by the German aesthetic tradition, that refers to a type of philosophy that opposes materialism. The same German aesthetic tradition can also be found in J.J Winckelmann's writings, such as "History of the A...

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The poem England 1819 written by Percy Shelley is categorized by its political and religious discourses and the powerfully emotive language characteristic of the Romantic Poets of the time in which it was written. It also shows the social criticisms or protests that the author enjoyed, as well as ...

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Like other Romantics, Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. ... Poetry and nature had great impact on him and he had a great admiration for it since nature was the solitary thing that brought tranquility to his life. ...

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This led Byron to write melancholy poetry and Mary became a fixed symbol as idealized and unattainable love. ... There was a petition put out by the Poetry Society to have the memorial placed inside. ...

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During the time in which John's mother came back into his life, he was beginning to write and it is said that due to his mother's death, he began to take interest in schooling and poetry because of the loneliness that he felt when she died. ... With the illness of Tom came the feelings of guilt by John for wanting to still pursue poetry while his brother was deathly ill (Ward 221). ...

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New Topics In Writing during the Revolution Period. The American Revolution and the French Revolution of 1789 had a great impact on literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This impact can be seen throughout Romantic literature but especially in the area of new topics to be written ...

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The "quest" genre has an enduring quality. In its various forms it has maintained it value and popularity throughout literary history. Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. Defined as a "search or pursuit made in order to...

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American culture after the Revolutionary War was one of change. After securing freedom from King George III, the former colonists began to develop their own sense of national identity. With this recent individuality came new innovations such as the cotton gin, which cemented slavery as the cornersto...

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Although separately, two of William Blake's poems of the same name, "The Chimney Sweeper," follow the conventions and traditions of the Romantic period, both poems together show the impact that Blake created by stark contrasts illustrated when the poems are compared side by side. Both poems are abo...

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The foundations of romanticism and realism share the common theme of alienation however, its views on society and people are very different. Romanticism blossomed with the theme of rejecting elitism and celebrating isolation and human emotions. The belief that society corrupts the goodness of h...

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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is known as a great love story because it is the central theme: the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. This love is the reason for the tragic development of the story; all the other themes like hate, revenge and death (among others) derive from this love between the two main characters. But here, we have a kind of love that is very difficult to classify. Some elements would place this kind of love within romantic tradition, like the intense involvement with nature, some mystical references, the wish of death from the lovers, and the m...

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