Romantisim
... was one of these authors, he wrote “Don Juan”. Another is Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in terza rima, a three line iambic pentameter set up of bcb, cdc, ded, and so on. Johan Keats created his own fairy tale land in the lyrical poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. Nature and the natural surroundings were important in romanticism. Taking pleasure in untouched scenery and the innocence of life was the basis and theme of “The Seasons” by the Scottish poet James Thomson. This inspired the nature tradition present in English literature, such as the works by Wordsworth. Another aspect in romantic writings, most times connected with the nature feel, was the look on rural life as being almost a romantic melancholy. This was sensing that change was looming, and the way of life they had been adapted to was being endangered. References to this can be found in “Ode to Evening” by William Collins, and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray. With the freedom that Romanticism brought came the broadening of the writers horizons. The Middle Ages became topic of many stories and settings. The nostalgia of more Gothic times put more exotic ideas into the author’s minds. The supernatural became a substantial part of the literature. Outcomes of this new idea were “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, by Wordsworth, and “The Castle of Otranto”, written by Horace Walpole. The world of the supernatural and exoticness was reinforced by two main things. One was pure rebellion against the standards of the eighteenth-century rationalism, such as t...