... , but in his ability to record with "thin skin sensitivity" (Watts 1988:15) these heightened moments of personal experience. As readers, we can see these strengths brilliantly manifested within the poetry and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. This theme runs directly through the core of his Odes of 1819. Ode to a Nightingale expresses Keats's almost unbearable ... seems to imply a resting point for the scope of Keats's imagination. The Major Odes are all deemed to be "invocations of, and powerful meditations upon, the subjects which preoccupy hi...

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... of his nature, are accompanied by an overbalance of enjoyment" (Wordsworth, Preface, 578). Indeed, according to Wordsworth, "The end of poetry is to produce excitement in coexistence with an overbalance of pleasure" (Wordsworth, Preface, 580). Wordsworths emphasis on the role of poetry as a "nonviolent" stimulation and one of pleasure, as well as the various roles of imagination in nature, are exemplified throughout ... purpose and expression of Romantic lyrics, perhaps the most satisfying aspect, which has yet to be addressed, concerns the result of these characteristics; namely, the fa...

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