Nature and the Self in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

Focus on Wordsworth and his world

A chronology of Wordsworth's life. Note the early deaths of his parents and brother.
– Link 1

Wordsworth's Dove Cottage
– Link 2
– Link 3
– Link 4

The history of Tintern Abbey
– Link 5

These pictures show how the abbey is situated in its landscape.
– Link 6

Old Westminster Bridge
– Link 7

Peele Castle. A photograph and the painting that inspired Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont."
– Link 8

William Hazlitt's view of Wordsworth. Encylopedia Britannica page on William Hazlitt, with an engraving of the writer in his youth.
– Link 9

Focus on John Locke and the empirical strain in English philosophy

– Link 10

Focus on social and historical influences on English Romantic artists

The French Revolution through English eyes
– Link 11

An educational course site's chronology of the Industrial Revolution—an English phenomenon
– Link 12

The impact of industrialization on a typical English town.
– Link 13

Focus on the Romantic fascination with ruins

A unit from a Stanford University course
– Link 14

An article from an arts magazine reflecting on a controversial reference to the beauty of ruins in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center
– Link 15

Focus on Romanticism in different art forms and cultures

A brief review of the contrasts between Classicism and Romanticism
– Link 16

Illustrated essay on the poetic landscape. Note the discussion of Claude Lorraine and Nicolas Poussin, artists who were important to Wordsworth, and the tradition of painting out of doors that Antony Van Dyck seems to have originated in his English years.
– Link 17

Caspar David Friedrich at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
– Link 18

A short essay about Friedrich, with illustrations, in the context of German Romanticism, linked to Beethoven and Goethe.
– Link 19

Cross-cultural poetics: The uses of nature in Asian lyrics

A teacher's course proposal: English Romanticism and contrasting views in Sino-Japanese context, with an excellent bibliography for further study
– Link 20

A study guide to Chinese and Japanese love poetry, compiled by a student, which frequently makes the incidental point that nature imagery is conventional in this tradition
– Link 21

Short biography and a transliteration of one of Ghalib's ghazals deemed unusual for its reliance on natural imagery
– Link 22

An illustrated page with links to some short ghazals of Ghalib
– Link 23