The present article purports to locate Gray’s and Wordsworth’s journals
in a transnational culture, which culminates with Humboldt, whose effort
was to combine scientific and poetic language in the discovery of
landscape. The two poets shared scientific interests, which they show not
only in their lexical choice but also in the reproduction of their experience
of the territory, based on the material circumstances of their apprehension
of reality. Historical studies in the natural sciences enabled them
to perceive phenomenons. Still, their pictorial sensibility and mastery of
the language gave them the tools useful to communicate the uniqueness
of the re-discovery of familiar paths, meadows and mountains.