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Journal of the University of Bombay [Arts & Law: No. 10]. May 1937

1937

And paradoxcally enough this revival of Romance was the outcome of a" new learning." The Renaissance Romance had been the result of the study of Greek and Latin : but in the Age of Wordsworth Romance was the result of a revival of interest in the literature of the middle ages books like Ancient Chivalry and Northern Antiquities. [...] Return to the wild cult of Nature ; fascination in the supernatural ; the lure of mere or sheer distance of seas and deserts and mountains " of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn " ; the emotions of the human soul in tortuous or sublime loneliness ; the assertion of the revoltionary spirit in politics and morals ; a persistent egotism an obsession to reveal one's personality —these in cur [...] He felt that the immeasurable height of woods the stationary blasts of waterfalls the torrents shooting from the clear blue sky the rocks and black drizzling crags the raving stream and the unfettered clouds Were all like workings of one mind the features Of the same face blossoms upon one tree Characters of the great Apocalypse The types and symbols of eternity Of first and last and mids [...] And man and Nature mind and the external world are geared together and in unison complete the motive principle of the Universe." Differences pass away and things are revealed in their crucial identity : the One remains the Many change and pass : with such faith well could Wordsworth address the " Wisdom and Spirit of the universe " : Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought That givest to [...] Perhaps the first great Nature poem in the English language was James Thomson's The Seasons but even there the descriptions of the seasons and rural sights and sounds and incidents are always objective : the personality of the poet nowhere intrudes itself between the poem and the reader.
humanities general
Pages
185
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120237
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Journal of the University of Bombay [Arts & Law: No. 10]. May 1937
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