Romanticism was a shift in literature, art and culture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, involving a pulling away from the philosophical rationalism of the Enlightenment. There was a resistance to formal conventions and rules, and uninhibited self-expression and authentic feeling were encouraged and admired. This fostered the development of poetry that was generally natural and free, with an emphasis on nature and sensibility.
It is easier to understand Romantic poems if we can place them within their historical context, and sometimes the relationship between the poem and the circumstances in which it was produced are not entirely self-evident.
"London 1802" by William Wordsworth
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, / Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, / Have forfeited their ancient English dower / Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; / Oh! raise us up, return to us again; / And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. / Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: / Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: / Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, / So didst thou travel on life's common way, / In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart / The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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