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Love of nature

Romantic poetry gave full expression to one of the most important characteristics of

Romanticism: love of nature, especially evident in the works of William Wordsworth.

Wordsworth, nature contained a mysterious force that the poet could perceive and

learn from. Nature served as a mirror into which humans could look to learn about themselves

The Romantics would have nothing to do w/the deist God of the Enlightenment, the

remote creator of the world-machine.

As the German Romantic poet Friedrich Novalis said, “Anyone seeking God will

find him anywhere.”

Critique of science

The worship of nature also led to Wordsworth and other Romantic poets to critique the

mechanistic materialism of 18 century

science, which, they believed, had reduced nature to a

cold object of study.