JOHN KEATS (1795 – 1821) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770 – 1850) Two poets that romanced nature during...

The Landmark Figures of Romantic

Poetry (Never Forget Nature)

JOHN KEATS (1795 – 1821)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770 – 1850)

Two poets that romanced nature during this era were:

The father of English Romanticism

Nature should be our teacher

We should find beauty in Nature

We should find our joy in Nature (The Tables Turned, I wandered Lonely As A Cloud, Written In March, Tintern Abbey)

W.W SAW NATURE IN 3 WAYS

The Nature Hymns of Keats

Keats Spoke• The beauty in nature

• His love of nature

• The joy and relief nature can bring( Ode to Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale, Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art, and On the Grasshopper and Cricket)

CONCLUSION They wrote about the beauty of

nature during a time that hated nature. They wrote about the joy that nature could bring, when joy was termed “meaningless”. They have left their immortal work as a message for us all:

‘ Never forget nature’.