Wordsworth and Coleridge were the founders of the Romantic School of Poetry. They collaborated to compose poetry in accordance with their definition of poetry and with ideas to enrich it, by adding strangeness to beauty. They were disgusted with the artificial poetic composition of the poets of the Neo-Classical School of poetry. They added emotion and imagination to the poetry, while the poetry of the Neo-Classical poets was dominated by reason and intellect.
According to Wordsworth, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings that takes its origins from emotions recollected in tranquility.” It is the poetry of these poets that brought back in to literature the element of Romanticism and Reality that was the mainstay of Elizabethan Poetry. This was the Romantic Revival of Poetry.
By the touch of imagination, Wordsworth has made the common look uncommon. He wrapped even the most ordinary things in celestial light as in ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’. He had rendered the solitary reaper girl, a common wench in the rural area, an extraordinary figure by giving certain features not found in others. She has a voice more melodious than that of a nightingale and even that reputed bird could not have charmed the travelers in the desert area as she could. The readers are left to wonder what was there in her song that made it so melodious.
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts”, says Shelley.
According to Wordsworth, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings that takes its origins from emotions recollected in tranquility.” It is the poetry of these poets that brought back in to literature the element of Romanticism and Reality that was the mainstay of Elizabethan Poetry. This was the Romantic Revival of Poetry.
By the touch of imagination, Wordsworth has made the common look uncommon. He wrapped even the most ordinary things in celestial light as in ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’. He had rendered the solitary reaper girl, a common wench in the rural area, an extraordinary figure by giving certain features not found in others. She has a voice more melodious than that of a nightingale and even that reputed bird could not have charmed the travelers in the desert area as she could. The readers are left to wonder what was there in her song that made it so melodious.
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts”, says Shelley.
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