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@article{172249,
        author = {Ashutosh Acharya},
        title = {A comparative study of mystification concept of Nature and Spiritual (God) in the poetry of William Wordsworth (English Poet) and Gangadhar Meher’s (Odia Poet).},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {8},
        pages = {3533-3540},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=172249},
        abstract = {This article makes an attempt to reveal mysticism as visualised by William Wordsworth and Gandhar Meher in their poetry. The article will analyse and examine the poetry on Nature of both Wordsworth and Meher’s perspectives from different angles. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770-23 April 1850) was one of the greatest Romantic poets of Nature. He was one of the most influential romantic poets of English of the 19th century. Among them others were Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, & Byron. As a poet of Nature, Wordsworth stands supreme. His poems depict his strong Love & passion for Nature. For him Nature was his guide, friend, teacher, nurse, and in short everything. He considered Nature as a living personality having divine power of soothing and healing. Being the greatest poet of nature, Wordsworth worshiped the Nature. Throughout his poetic career, Wordsworth remained devoted to Nature. He perceived Nature as a Living entity & saw a close bond between nature & the humans. Famous works of Wordsworth based on Nature;- Lyrical Ballad, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude, “Daffodils, Lines written in Early Spring,” “It was April morning : Fresh & Clear”, “The Solitary Reaper”, “The World is Too much with us”, The Table Turned”, “The Recluse”, “My Heart Leaps up when I Behold”, “The Excursion”, “Odd on Intimation of Immortality”, “Lucy Poems”, “I Wondered Lonely as a cloud” and so many for which he is known as “Poet of Nature”.
P.B. Shelley called him “Poet of Nature” and Mathew Arnold called him the Highest “Priest of Nature”.
Gangadhar Meher (1862-1924) was a renowned Odia poet of the 19th century, who was also known as “Swabhava kavi” or “Prakriti kavi”, meaning the natural poet. He was a literary midas, who transformed everything into gold by the alchemic touch of his genius. He was a born poet of delicate charm, who wrote on various themes such as devotion, nature, patriotism, philolophy & love. Apart from his poetry dealing with devotion & nature, the major bulk of his poetry signs the glory and greatness of the creation & supreme creator with socio- religious issues and thereby making himself a mystic through and through. He had a clean white style & a penetrating insight. His poems are marked by originality, simplicity, lyricism & musicality. He was honoured with the title of ‘Swabhava Kavi’ by Utkal Gaurav Madhusudhan Das, the Father of modern Odisha. He sees 7 shows the entire universe ever-beautiful, nectareous & imbued with ambrosia. His famous works are- Tapaswini, Pranayavallari, Kichaka-vada, Indumati, Utkal-Lakshmi, Ayodhya-Drushya, Kabita-Kallola, Arghya-Thali, Ahalyastava, Kavitamala, Padmini, Krushakasangita, Mahima, far his creation, Like Kalidas in Sanskrit and William Wordsworth in English, Gangadhar Meher is regarded as ‘Swabhava kabi’, ‘Prakrit kabi’, Poet of Nature in Odiya Literature.},
        keywords = {Nature, Poetry, Creator, nectareous, imbued, ambrosia, devotion, William Wordsworth, Gangadhar Meher.},
        month = {April},
        }