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ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE - THE NATURE POET

INTRODUCTION The eighteenth century Romantic poets of England deliberately tried to break away from the fetters of Neo- classical poetry that tied down their imagination by bringing in the fresh air of Nature, love, adventure and tone of pathos to the world of poetry. Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads says They who have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will, no doubt, frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and awkwardness: they will look round for poetry, and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title. (Babu, 70) He further says The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men and at the same time, to throw over t