with realism due to its emphasis on illustrating surface reality with a view of presenting human behavior as hereditary and can be controlled by physical and environmental impulses. William Wordsworth’s popular literature, the Lyrical Ballads, expressed naturalism to a new level best leading to a poem revolution. Wordsworth transformed the poetry definition and was able to brand it to a more composed formally styled literature championing the stories of democrat lives of just ordinary people without
The theory of eco-criticism is broad, comprehensive and apt enough to lend its application to all sorts of nature writings of all ages and times. It is not a method of analysis or interpretation but a redefined area of research and rediscovery. Most of the work in the theory’s jurisdiction has been pursued in the USA, where a special emphasis has been given to Native American folklore and literature; but much eco-critical work has also been devoted to the English Romantic tradition notably by the
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings and philosophy of life have been subjects of academic debates and a bourgeoning area of research. Critics of Shelley’s philosophical vision of life have generally been divided into two polarised camps. The one maintains that Shelley was “a falsetto screamer, a sentimental narcissus, a dream-ridden escapist, an immoral free-love cultist with a highly inflammable nature and particularly, in the present age, as the weakling author of the lyric called ‘The Indian serenade”
regards the novels like The Europeans, Silas Marner and Hard Times as moral fables and the more complex novels like The Rainbow and Women in Love as dramatic poems. This elimination of the distinction of genre is not a new thing in English criticism. Wordsworth had eliminated the difference between prose and poetry with the remark that “ there neither is, nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical