Literary Studies

  Romantic age   The romantic period is the most fruitful period in the history of English literature. The period starts from 1798 with the publication of lyrical ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge and the famous preface which Wordsworth wrote as a manifesto of new form of poetry in opposition to classical poetry. The first characteristic of romantic poetry which was focused by Wordsworth and Coleridge was simplicity and naturalness of its diction.Wordsworth chose the language of common people because it is the most sincere expression of deepest feelings.Wordsworth also wanted the poets to become interested in rural life and simple folk living in the lap of nature. Romantics attached the supremacy of the heroic couplets as the only form of writing poetry and substituted it by simple and natural diction. Romantics diverted the attention from artificial town’s life to the life in the moods and religions and by emphasizing on imagination and emotions against dry inte...