Echoes of Melancholy: A critical exploration of the Despair and Abandonment within early 19th Century English Poets

The romantic age Literature, along with the period that had immediately preceded it, was unfurled into a scathing expression, one that was marked by a certain revolt against the prevalent sensibility in favour of the natural senses by the likes of Wordsworth and Coleridge, as the eventual consequence of a period that had been engrossed in what the then romantics would have referred to as an irrational admiration for the classics. The prime concern for the poets of Romanticism was to never be scrupulous about the concerns that had been deluging the minds of other writers concomitant to them in the first place. Their explorations of the unbridled emotions of the human mind, other than exhibiting the naturalistic propensity of a newfound eloquence also brought forth to the attention of others, a sense of dejection and desolation that continued to reverberate the sanctums of literary figures for a significant time in the history and showed no signs of dissipation even going further either with an egalitarian conception of the Victorians or the defiled dystopia of the Modernists. Despite the immense joy and pleasure they had experienced through their predilection of an unrestrained lexicon, their poetry made known the much-concealed morbidity which their minds were possessed with, and even their preoccupation with the romantic ideals that were supposed to be enrapturing couldn't assuage the gloom they had found themselves to be stranded on. The association of a sense of freedom divorced from the rationality of the neoclassical, with the same dread of misery that had intimidated even the rationalists, reveals a concern worthy of a sincere discourse about human nature and its inveterate resorts to despair.