In 2016, I completed a creative writing thesis consisting of 76 short and long poems based on a poetics that combined a regionalist and cosmopolitan rhetoric.

These texts represent the main concern of the present study, in relation to which the aim of the study is twofold: first, to discern among the ideas and principles regarding the origin of poetry, its subject-matter and language, the role of the poet, and poetic imagination, and, second, to present the ways in which these ideas are materialised or not in literary practice, namely in Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and Shelley's To a Skylark. These are some of the reasons that have made critics regard Romanticism as an artistic not social movement and be reluctant to speak about a Romantic ideology in Marxist terms concerning the socio-historical position of literature, especially when referring to the great Romantic literary criticism expressed in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Moreover, although time and place specific and emerging in connection to French Revolution and Industrial Revolution, the exponents of Romanticism were escapist rather than rebellious as to attempt the improvement of the social conditions. Romantic emphasis on subjective experience and the disinterestedness of the creative act was also an aspect of its rejection of the principles of Enlightenment and Neoclassicism. The rise of the expressive theory of authorship in the literary movement that we call Romanticism radicalised the ideas that the artist is a genius and the work of art is autonomous from the actual reality as it results from an imaginary universe which is specific to a certain artist.

Preface to lyrical ballads