Wordsworth:

Here's a famous portrait of Wordsworth by his friend, Benjamin Robert Haydon. What elements of Romanticism can you discover in the portrait?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), wrote the following poem after encounter this famous portrait. What "powers" does the portrait, and poem for that matter, unlock in you?

On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon

Wordsworth upon Helvellyn! Let the cloud

Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind,

Then break against the rock, and show behind

The lowland valleys floating up to crowd

The sense with beauty. He with forehead bowed

And humble-lidded eyes, as one inclined

Before the sovran thought of his own mind,

And very meek with inspirations proud,

Takes here his rightful place as poet-priest

By the high altar, singing prayer and prayer.

To the higher Heavens. A noble vision free

Our Haydon's hand has flung out from the mist:

No portrait this, with Academic air!

This is the poet and his poetry.

Here J. M. W. Turner's Tintern Abbey

What characteristics of Romanticism can you find here?