New Models Of Poetry As Reflected In The Romantic Works Of Blake, Wordsworth, And Coleridge
The Enlightenment was a period of individualism, science, rationalism, and of the human ‘right' to govern nature. Poets and authors focused
on creating perfect pieces of literature, and hoped that by some means their work would be considered ‘sublime'. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the age of Romanticism, several poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge sought the ‘sublime' within the realms of nature. The Romantics began to create a new model of poetry through focusing on the feelings or subjects of the poets mind instead of traditional methods.
Alexander Pope would be considered one of the most important writers of the Enlightenment. In "An Essay of Criticism", Pope explains that it is important to know what you are talking about when doing a critique, and that it is wrong to pretend to be someone of vast knowledge. He writes; "So by false learning is good sense defaced: / Â… And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools" (25, 27). Pope makes......
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