Abstract
This paper proposes that the Romantic perception of nature has been unsettled by creative expressions in contemporary ecopoetry. Contemporary ecopoetry critiques Romantic notions of nature and the sublime. New literary perspectives and practices reflect observations of an environment in flux, undergoing change and giving rise to new questions. This paper will explore the work of two poets, and analyse the ways in which their work inherits and deviates from the tenets of Romanticism. The two poets under consideration, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) and Alice Oswald (1966-), although distant in time from one another, create compositional interactions of life processes across time and space.
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