Romantic Era

In 1797 and 1798 Coleridge wrote 3 poems which had no equal and which he himself was never again to equal or approach: "Chris...

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

Wordsworth, in his advertisement, said that the material of poetry "are to be found in every subject which can interest the human h...

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

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 ...