, but in how to express what he saw and how he felt"(Brown 90). He used their skill and knowledge to better his expression of himself. Lampman admired much about the Romanticists because he saw the post-Romanticists movement of his own time as "dreary and monotonous realism and [a] morbid unhealthiness of [the] soul"(Early 142). This admiration of Nature and its relationship with man was as much moral as it was aesthetic. Truly great poetry strengthens the understanding and the spirit. The poetry of the English Romanticist movement served to remove the ‘gloom' of human existence. Lampman had many qualities within himself that attracted him to the English Romanticists. Lampman, like most of the Romanticists, saw science and poetry as cooperative modes of knowledge. He shared the Romanticists "concern for salvaging spiritual values from what he believed to be an obsolete religious system and for adopting these values to a human, rather than supernatural, dispensation"(Early 141). The similarity in the belief that poetry's true purpose is to advance the human spirit toward ultimate renovation and transfiguration engaged Lampman to the English Romanticist movement. To Lampman and the English Romanticists "nothing in Nature is ugly either in itself or in its relations to its surroundings, and that any other condition is due to the perverting hand on men"(Connor 148). Lampman's sense of identity as a poet developed in the "tradition of prophetic humanism"(Early 142). However, while Lampman was devoted to this art there were qualities that separate him from completely imitating the English Romantics. His desire for sharp accuracy in his poetic descriptions of nature separated him from the sometimes faulty poetry of the Romanticist movement. Furthermore, Lampman had a nervous sensibility in his poetry that detached him from the intense passion felt in many of the Romanticists poetry. Lampman lacked the "drive [of the Romanticists] toward ...
