... his entire life among people by whom the supreme importance was taken for granted. He got his poetic energy form 2 sources: first it came from his passionate seriousness, anxiety to make a good poem so he might justify his resumption of poetry writing, secondly his enthusiasm for the new rhythmic theories which he worked out and the old assonantal methods he had discovered in Welsh and English poetry. His first source led him to write his 'nature' poetry emphasizing the glory of god and the second was in the dark personal poems of spiritual combat. His poems show a sensitivity to the physical world, and a distinguish sensation which may be almost called abnormal. He was seen as a romantic poet, which was a revolt against the thought processes of the 18th century. He was the first to use in terms of intention and method, to the early romantics ...

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