What do Romantic poets find when they encounter the natural world and or/natural landscapes?

Module: Romanticism (Level 5)

Authors

  • Lawrence Clarke Russam

Keywords:

romanticism, poetry, the sublime

Abstract

This essay discusses Nature as the primary subject in two Odes from the Romantic period: 'Dejection' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Coleridge, S. T. 1802), and 'Intimations of Immortality', by William Wordsworth (Wordsworth, W. 1807).

Author Biography

  • Lawrence Clarke Russam

    Lawrence is an English literature and Creative Writing student at Leeds Beckett University. Lawrence co-founded the Creative Society at Leeds Beckett and served as president during the 2019-20 academic year. Lawrence's literary interests are broad, but in his final portfolio he focused on mixed-race identity in post-emancipation Jamaica, experimentally using a phonetically-spelled patois in the production of his radio-script: Confucius. 

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Published

2022-06-27

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): The LBU Review: Summer 2022

Section

Articles