... genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". Blake and Wordsworth, were (roughly) contemporaries in this time, and rejected the rules and rigid style of the poets before them, adopting instead a new style without such restrictions of subject, style or form ... and it has been argued that Blake was questioning the nature within man to illustrate our inability to understand nature, or the God who created it. Wordsworth's poems were not as h...

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... in an office in Worthington. Despite his diligence in his legal studies, poetry still was beating his heart. By this time Bryant read Wordsworth for the first time. The influence of Lyrical Ballads in his poetry is to be recognized, since Wordsworth is regarded as the supreme interpreter of nature, a main feature in his poetry, together with the simplicity of naturalness of his verse ... image of death, as a chance to rest forever and become one with nature. I will be able to say that in its implicit pantheism the poem looks at once backward to Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and forward t...

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... poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement b. Wrote "Vaudracour and Julia- and "Lyrical Ballads- with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge a. English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher b. Wrote "Poems on Various Subjects- and "Lyrical Ballads- with Wordsworth 3. Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron) a. English poet, who was one of the most important and versatile writers of the Romantic Movement b. Wrote "Hours of ... ...

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