This paper discusses
romanticism, a term given to a European wide movement in the arts in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries
in revolt against the neo-classicism of the previous
centuries. It focuses on the theme of nature, one of four main themes in
romanticism and how nature is associated with ideas about psychology, pleasure and health, morality and the divine. It reviews William Wordsworth's lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, with an emphasis on how the poet describes nature and uses it to express deeper feelings and meaning.