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A review by tienno22
Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Some of these poems are beautiful; some of them are a little creepy.
This collection captures the Romantic era of literature well. There is a shift from intense rationality from the Enlightenment (being stuck in your head) to a harmonious relationship and appreciation of nature and human experiences. God is in nature. God is in the beauty of creation and (according to the Romantics of the era) cannot be perceived by only the rational apriori of the mind but must also be felt in creation and within human experiences. Nature plays a large role in the poems of this era. Some deep poems contemplate life or death and the meaning of it. Some contemplate the vanity of humanity and our imposition on the natural world.
Here are my favorites:
-The Nightengale
-We are Seven
-Exposition and Reply
-Tintern Abbey
This collection captures the Romantic era of literature well. There is a shift from intense rationality from the Enlightenment (being stuck in your head) to a harmonious relationship and appreciation of nature and human experiences. God is in nature. God is in the beauty of creation and (according to the Romantics of the era) cannot be perceived by only the rational apriori of the mind but must also be felt in creation and within human experiences. Nature plays a large role in the poems of this era. Some deep poems contemplate life or death and the meaning of it. Some contemplate the vanity of humanity and our imposition on the natural world.
Here are my favorites:
-The Nightengale
-We are Seven
-Exposition and Reply
-Tintern Abbey