By Jonathan Bate
In deciding on Wordsworth's curiosity in nature as a necessary, ecological curiosity, and linking it with the ecological debate in political background, this examine makes an attempt to outline the politics of poetry. Wordsworth is proven as a knowledge determine and the consultant to a pastoral recognition we won't come up with the money for to forget. the writer screens the basics in Wordsworth's poetry of position, together with that ordinary emphasis on locality inherited via, among others, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Seamus Heaney.
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Between Wordsworth and Rawnsley there was John Ruskin himself, 'Westmorland cottage's adaptation to its environment, another protestor against extension of the railway into the Lakes. He is an absolutely key figure in my story, for it was through him more than anyone else that the 'lTordsworthian ecology entered into a broader - and indeed an explicitly political - nineteenth-century environmental tradition. s another admirer of the In the Cuide'Wordsworth lamented the decline of cottage industry.
People have talked of beauty, of freedom from care, of silence and tranquillity, of the healthiness and simplicity of life in the country as opposed to that in the city. But none o[ these explanations comes to the underlying principle. Hazlitt then cites a passage in Rousseau's Confessions where Jean-Jacques describes how he moved into a certain room and was immediately particularly endeared to it because he could see 'a little spot of green' from his window and this was the flirst time since his childhood that he had had such an object constantly before him.
If we trace the 'Romantic Ideology' forward into Morris and the prose-poet Ruskin, it becomes something far removed from German idealist aesthetics. It becomes an ideology that is concerned, for instance, with architectural style and town-planning. In chapter seven of Neuzs from Nowhue the houses of Piccadilly stand in carefully cultivated gardens which run over with flowers and fruit trees. Morris's vision continues: 'We came presently into a large open space, sloping somewhat of which had been taken of for planting an orchard, mainly, as I could see, of apricot trees, in the midst of which was a pretty gay little structuie of wood, painted and gilded, that looked like a refreshment stall.