Wordsworth and Shelley: New Romantic Radicalism versus Old…1 The French revolution gave birth to various principles and ideologies that promised a golden future ahead of them, but the golden age clearly refused to become a historical fact. People’s hopes and aspiration turned into a bloodbath. Rieder (1985) stated that a poet must fall into a deep fascination with the precursor 's work in order to become a poet, but must also overcome and master that work in order to achieve an autonomous voice. Romantic men and women were profoundly troubled and disturbed by the bloodshed and barbaric cruelty of the reign of fear and terror, and so were the writers of that age. The main ideas that arouse between the two great Romantic writers, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley are about the subjectivity in nature, their believes in God and of their economic ideologies. One of the main grounds of contradiction that came between them was about the subjectivity of nature one believed upon. Judged in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century opposition oratory, the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley are forward looking and individualistic in their worldly and numerical orientations. Despite Shelley 's tendencies, his expression is characterized by appeals to the future, immediate and intergenerational, and to a benevolent human essence, individually held, but universal in its nature. His forward looking individualism informs both his