Wordsworth through his poetry made a revolt against urban-industrial civilization and considered the evils of modern life as stemming from man’s separation from Nature. His great contribution to English poetry was the re-interpretation of Nature as a vital entity, a speaking presence, and an acting principle. ![]() He departed from the gaudy poetic diction and wrote in familiar language as far as practicable. He wrote about familiar common subjects and gave them a light that was never on sea or land. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) endowed Nature with a new meaning and significance. It is the introduction of imagination and a sense of mystery in literature. Romanticism is described as a return to Nature and ‘the renascence of wonder’. Romanticism in the broad sense meant individualism and the revival of imaginative faculty in the matter of literary compositions. ![]() ![]() The revolution of 1789 had violently shaken English thought and aroused liberal ideas in England. Newton’s science and Locke’s philosophy were important contributions to the eighteenth-century ethos that made the literature of Pope and Dryden. The first half of the nineteenth century records the triumph of romanticism in literature.
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