Nature in poetry

1. The Romantic Era — When Poetry Became a Blockbuster of the Heart

Red carpet entrance: Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1798 — Lyrical Ballads drops like a literary blockbuster. From The Professor’s Desk There are moments in literary history when one age does not simply end and another begin — rather, the new age arrives walking upon a red carpet woven by its quiet forerunners. So it was in […]

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The Transition Era: Pre-Romantics — When Poetry Began to Feel Again

A slow turning of the poetic tide from reason to resonance, from order to emotion, from the classical to the human heart. From The Professor’s Desk There are times in the history of literature when no trumpet is sounded, no manifesto declared, yet a quiet revolution begins to stir. The late 18th century was such

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