{"id":756,"date":"2013-04-19T22:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T02:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-04-28T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T12:09:45","slug":"one-of-its-most-exotic-regions-the-subtropical-forests-rivers-and-savannas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/one-of-its-most-exotic-regions-the-subtropical-forests-rivers-and-savannas.html","title":{"rendered":"One of its most exotic regions, the subtropical forests, rivers, and savannas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\r\nBartram Trail wrote about\r\n\r\nthe effect of William Bartram’s Travels<\/em> on the English Romantics<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nMoreover, Bartram was describing not merely the New World, but one\r\nof its most exotic regions, the subtropical forests, rivers, and\r\nsavannas that were so unlike the tame English countryside, even in\r\nthe Lake district. Bartram’s America was inhabited by tribes of\r\nIndians, whom the English writers saw as “natural men,”\r\nthe survivors of an ancient civilization, now lying in mysterious\r\nruins, which also suggested many poetical and imaginative\r\nassociations.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\nColeridge read Bartram’s Travels carefully, wrote thoughts and\r\nextracts from them in his notebooks, and later withdrew images and\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nstories for his poems. Bartram’s influence is quite evident in\r\nseveral major works of the period: This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,\r\nOsorio, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christobel, Frost at\r\nMidnight, Lewti and Kubla Khan.(116) Perhaps most strikingly,\r\nColeridge later used Bartram in The Biographia Literaria to describe\r\nthe poetic imagination. A passage in the Travels describes the\r\n\r\nstratified relationship between rocks, clay, soil, and the trees\r\ngrowing at the surface; to Coleridge, this seemed “a sort of\r\nallegory, or connected simile and metaphor of Wordsworth’s intellect\r\nand genius.”(117)\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nWordsworth was also\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

strongly attracted to Bartram, though his\r\nreaction was somewhat milder than Coleridge’s. Scholars have\r\nrecognized images, ideas, and “echoes” of Bartram’s\r\nprose in several of Wordsworth’s writings, including Ruth, The\r\nPrelude, The Excursion, A Guide Through the Lake District, and the\r\n\r\nEcclesiastical Sonnets.(118) Similar touches have been noted in the\r\nwork of minor Romantic writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert\r\nSouthey, Thomas Campbell, and Felicia Hemens.(119) Since several\r\ntranslations of the Travels were printed in Europe, the full extent\r\nof his influence on other writers, especially in France and Germany,\r\nwas possibly even, greater than scholars have presently determined.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nFor the Romantics, Bartram’s Travels stated all the principles of\r\norder—God, Man and Imagination—that they also recognized\r\nas central. Bartram was an unconscious herald of the new ideas they\r\nwere about to spread; throughout their careers they consciously\r\nechoed his single book.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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