to suffer with them and trully, to rejoice with them. To restore them to their
health and defend them against their critics and naysayers. The Romantic poets
were rather preocupied with the natural world, as is probably pretty obvious by
now. So much of their ideas came from the very fact that most of them lived in
the Lakeside district, a very beautiful place. They grew up with a great
admiration for the physical world, and came to almost adopt a pantheistic
outlook on life, especially Wordsworth. Shelley and Keats were less focussed on
the spiritual realm, but as both of their writings clearly show, nature was
still highly regarded if not deitized. St. Stephen’s University Literature 350
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