“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of the things, but they inward significance.”

Art is an expression of human creative skill and imagination in the form of sculptor, painting, novel or any other form of creative work that can be appreciated by its beauty. By the 18th century in England the term gothic had become identical with the medieval era, distinguished as bar break and unenlightened. It fluctuated into a genre of gothic literature which had and obsessions with supernatural elements. This article attempts to overview the development of gothic fiction in the poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge to identify gothic elements and they impact on the characters. The attempt to defect the gothic component present in nature celebrates in its various dimensions in the works of William Wordsworth and St Coleridge. It is a distinct style of writing with the constituent of supernatural beings, haunted castles, horror, fear, death etc, as well as the romantic factor, such as nature, individuality and passion which includes suspense and fear in the atmosphere.

Keywords: Gothic, Genre, Supernatural, Creative Skill, Haunted, Nature.