Romantic Era

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near t...

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, imagination was not a cardinal point in poetical theory. For Pope and Johnson, as f...

Coleridge gave much thought to the Imagination. He considers poetry the product of the secondary imagination. The secondary imaginat...

When Wordsworth arranged his poems for publication, he placed the Ode entitled "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of E...

To Keats, the Urn stands in a special sacred relation to a special kind of existence and keeps this relation immaculate and intact. The U...

The Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A ...