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Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th
century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.
The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom to something noble, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.
Our modern sense of a romantic character is sometimes based on Byronic or Romantic ideals. Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval, in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar and distant in modes more authentic than chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.
Although the movement is rooted in German Pietism, which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background from which Romanticism emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities; indeed, in the second half of the nineteenth century, "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite to Romanticism. Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas

Wordsworth is regarded as the first and greatest English Romantic poet and became England's Poet Laureate in 1843. He is most popular for the poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality."
Early Life of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, the Lake District where he lived most of his life. The region's magnificent landscape gave him a love of nature that deeply affected his life. He was orphaned at 13, but two uncles had him educated at a good local school and at Cambridge University where he began writing poetry.
At the age of 23, his first poems were published. An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches were inspired by a walking vacation in France and Switzerland.
In 1795 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and in 1798 the two jointly produced Lyrical Ballads. Most of the poems were Wordsworth's. He used ordinary but lyrical words to express strong sentiments about remembered scenes and events. His brilliant imagination could make everyday ordinary countryside scenes alive and seemingly full of meaning.
Best Years at Poetry
In 1802, when he was 32 years old, he married Mary Hutchinson. By the time he was 36, Wordsworth had written his best poetry, including a first version of The Prelude, considered his greatest autobiographical epic. In this long poem, he tells how he came to love nature and see himself as a part of the natural world. All this was new at a time when many poets still wrote about ancient Greek and Roman heroes with a flowery language that no one actually spoke. His friendship with Coleridge fell out in 1810

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British poet, who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion recollected in tranquillity" was shared by a number of his followers
19th century is known as Romantic perion in English literature. In this Period,poetry should present a mirror of life. Great poets of this period are Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Imagination becomes very important in poetry and it is seen by romantic poets as the source of creative activity-the creative power of god. The imagination of man is of the same essence. It is in a way identical with the creative power and activity of God.
The Lyric form acquired during this period. In a lyric poem, the poet speaks in the 1st person so we have a subjective poem. Romantic poetry is based on individual experience and it also arises from the need of the individual to assert himself. This need to assert one’s identity comes from the pressure of the rapidly changing society. It is also a reaction against uniformity and conformity. Romantic poetry is about the mind of the creative spirit ot the poet. We don’t have poems about simply nature. The underlying subject matter is the innermind, spirit of man interacting with nature. The poet attributes qualities of his own spirit and mind to the external world. Nature acts, feels and responds to the mind of the poet. Self-exploration was one of the most important characteristics of romantic poetry. Apparent subject is nature but the essential subject turns out to be the poet himself. Romantic poetry is the poetry of the self, so the celebration of the nature turns out to be ultimately the celebration of the creativity and subjectivity of the poet himself. It is also the culmination of the enlightment of 18th century ideas. Intuation, inspiration, imagination and self constitude the romanticism. Through intuition a person can reach the truth. (transcendentalism

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