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
Shakespeare did not theories nor did Milton. It was William Wordsworth in the romantic age of the nineteenth century who came with his, theory of poetry in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads. After Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold also was very vocal on this issue and called poetry “the criticism of life”. The man who was as good a critic as a poet was T.S Eliot who also came out with his
Writers of the time thought of them self as free spirits that wrote of the imaginative truth within them self, and repudiated the aristocratic way of life. • The creative imagination occupied the centre of Romantic views of art Writers and texts: William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Lewis: Tales of Terror Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility Complementary information: The Romantic period was filled with historical events that have changed the society we live in today. Poplawski’s Literature in context
The feelings of the individual mind are the proof of purity and simplicity. The true emotions always flow from the bottom of the heart and come forward in the form of some art. Such kind of feelings is the recognition of romanticism. The common idea between us exist is that the relation of love between a man a woman is regarded as romantics. Although it is true, yet this is just a little aspect of the romanticism. It is very vast in its nature. It covered all the aspects of human life and all 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