The article explores the theme of nostalgia as a dominant emotional and aesthetic force in English poetry. It examines how poets express memories, sentimental attachment, loss, and recollection through verse. Drawing examples from major English poets such as Milton, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, Shelley, Yeats, Longfellow, Hardy, Rossetti, and others, the paper highlights how personal experiences, emotional suffering, love, death, and nature shape poetic expression. The study emphasizes the role of memory and subjective experience in literature, showing nostalgia as a medium through which poets preserve emotions, human relationships, and the permanence of love and life against the transience of time.
Research Scholar, P.G. Department of English and Research Centre, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
