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This 10 page paper looks at one specific aspect of Wordsworth poetry (nature) and how it is representative of the entire literary period known as the 'Romantic Era.' Bibliography lists six sources.
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during school vacation periods he frequently visited places noted for their scenic beauty. It was in reflecting on his childhood that Wordsworth said he had only had a "foretaste,
a dim earnest, of the calm that Nature beathes among the hills and the groves." It was Wordsworths collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
on a book of poems entitled "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) that truly marked the beginning of the romantic movement in English poetry. (Sundell) Wordsworth wrote almost all the poems in the
volume, including the memorable "Tintern Abbey;" Coleridge contributed the famous "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Representing a revolt against the artificial classicism of contemporary English verse, Lyrical Ballads was greeted
with hostility by most leading critics of the day. Wordsworths premise was that the source of poetic truth is the direct experience of the senses. Poetry, he asserted, originates from
"emotion recollected in tranquility." Rejecting the contemporary emphasis on form and an intellectual approach that drained poetic writing of strong emotion, he maintained that the scenes and events of everyday
life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Wordsworth was not discouraged by his critics and continued to write
poetry that clearly expressed his unique and individual point of view. II. The Romantic Era of Poetry The Romantic Era, especially as it related to poetry, was found in
the poetry and literature of virtually every European nation, the United States, and the countries of Latin America The movement lasted from about 1750 to about 1870 and was characterized
by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature. The term romantic first appeared in 18th-century English and originally meant
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