Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word
'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it
could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the
character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift
of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of
William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the
new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined
poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the
breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the
printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and
ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic
period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the
relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and
literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.
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