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Wordsworth’s Romantic Values
The Enlightenment, a period of reason, intellectual thought, and science, led some writers to question those values over emotion. Instead, as the Romantic movement gradually developed in response, writers began to look at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period, roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830, was a period when poets turned to nature, their individual emotions, and imagination to create their poetry. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats rejected conventional literary forms, regular meters, and complex characters and experimented with emotion and nature subjects in their poems which marked a literary renaissance. Besides a response to the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution also influenced the Romantic sentiments. Poets quickly reacted towards the widespread change from a predominantly agricultural society to a modern industrial one. For example, England’s landscape started to emerge of......

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