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86. The Age of Wordsworth
The Age of Wordsworth is the age of the Revolution in the
history of politics and of what is broadly called the romantic
triumph in that of literature; though, when we speak in this way.
we have to remember that the triumph of romanticism was
accompanied by that of naturalism (see $83).)Now it is most
important for us to understand that the movement in literature
was only one aspect of a comprehensive general movement,
another aspect of which is to be found in the Revolution. (A1
bottom both the political and the literary movements were inspired
by the same impatience of formulas, traditions, conventions, and
the tyranny of the dead hand, by the same insistence upon
individuality, and by the same craving for freedom and the larger
life. In the doctrines of the new poetry, as in the teachings of the
revolutionary theorists, there was indeed much that assumed the
shape of challenge and attack. The long-accepted rules of art, in
fact prescribed rules of anykind, were treated with open
contempt; the reaction against Pope and the Augustan school
became aggressive; and the principle of spontaneity was
everywhere thrust to the front. Here and there, it is true,
conservative critics endeavoured to make a stand against these,
to them, wild and dangerous ideas; as when Lord Jeffrey wrote
in an early number of the Edinburgh Review; 'Poetry has this
much in common with religion, that its standards were fixed long
ago by certain inspired writers, whose authority it is no longer
lawful to call in question.' But such a conception of things did
not represent the dominant spirit of the age. That spirit was rather
expressed by Keats when he wrote: 'The genius of poetry must​

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PLS TERATUA

86. The Age of Wordsworth

The Age of Wordsworth is the age of the Revolution in the

history of politics and of what is broadly called the romantic

triumph in that of literature; though, when we speak in this way.

we have to remember that the triumph of romanticism was

accompanied by that of naturalism (see $83).)Now it is most

important for us to understand that the movement in literature

was only one aspect of a comprehensive general movement,

another aspect of which is to be found in the Revolution. (A1

bottom both the political and the literary movements were inspired

by the same impatience of formulas, traditions, conventions, and

the tyranny of the dead hand, by the same insistence upon

individuality, and by the same craving for freedom and the larger

life. In the doctrines of the new poetry, as in the teachings of the

revolutionary theorists, there was indeed much that assumed the

shape of challenge and attack. The long-accepted rules of art, in

fact prescribed rules of anykind, were treated with open

contempt; the reaction against Pope and the Augustan school

became aggressive; and the principle of spontaneity was

everywhere thrust to the front. Here and there, it is true,

conservative critics endeavoured to make a stand against these,

to them, wild and dangerous ideas; as when Lord Jeffrey wrote

in an early number of the Edinburgh Review; 'Poetry has this

much in common with religion, that its standards were fixed long

ago by certain inspired writers, whose authority it is no longer

lawful to call in question.' But such a conception of things did

not represent the dominant spirit of the age. That spirit was rather

expressed by Keats when he wrote: 'The genius of poetry must