English Romanticism - Liceo Quadri

Romantic poetry
MAIN FEATURES of most Romantic poems:
the presence of the 'lyric I';
the presentation of nature 'as a living force' and, in a
pantheistic vein, as the expression of God in the
universe;
the use of the language of sense impressions
because the senses were instruments to set the
visionary power in action;
the freedom from models and rules as regards poetic
technique;
return to past forms such as the ballad and the
sonnet which achieved more flexibility and intensity
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