English Literature

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) putation. Patriotic clubs and societies multiplied in England, all asserting the d ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) Thomas Paine’sRights of Man, which can hardly be consid- ered as literature, but w ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) cal turmoil of the age; and then, when the turmoil was over and England began her ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) And so, more than any other writer of the age, he invests the common life of natur ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) noticeable by contrast with the cold, formal, satiric spirit of the early eighteen ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) tist, and novelist, and Jane Porter, whoseScottish Chiefsand Thaddeus of Warsaware ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) mankind permanently," which, they declared, classic poetry could never do. Helping ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) rally into four periods (1) his childhood and youth, in the Cumberland Hills, from ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) loves to be alone, and is never lonely, with nature; second, like every other chil ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) No man can read such records without finding his own boyhood again, and his own ab ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) den, we have already spoken. The importance of this deci- sion to give himself to ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) the magazine critics, who seized upon the worst of his work as a standard of judgm ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) message. Poetry was his life; his soul was in all his work; and only by reading wh ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) When we read these exquisite shorter poems, with their no- ble lines that live for ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) even the winds, as his companions; and with his mature be- lief that all nature is ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) Wordsworth sums up his philosophy of childhood; and he may possibly be indebted he ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) mystic element, the result of his own belief that in every nat- ural object there ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) retained till past sixty much of his youthful enthusiasm. In his later years, howe ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) holds his poetry, he had and still has a cheering message, full of beauty and hope ...

CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850) Just as, when a little child, he used to wander over the fields with a stick in hi ...