Author(s): Ms. Pooja

Abstract: This research paper explores environmental themes in Romantic poetry, examining how major Romantic poets conceptualize nature as sacred, dynamic, restorative, and morally instructive. Through close readings of selected poems by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and William Blake, this study demonstrates that Romantic poetry offers a proto-environmentalist critique of human domination over nature. The paper situates Romantic ecological thought within its historical context and connects it to contemporary environmental criticism, particularly ecocriticism.

Keywords: romanticism, nature, ecological harmony, ecological identity, ecofeminist, ecocriticism, environmental consciousness.

Article Info: Received: 14 Nov 2025; Received in revised form: 12 Dec 2025; Accepted: 15 Dec 2025; Available online: 18 Dec 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.106.62