In his 1924 essay, Arthur Lovejoy speaks of the discrimination of approaches within “romanticism” and prefers to use the term in the plural. Two great Romantic poets, Worth and Shelley, wrote poems on the same subject, for example the flight of a lark, but based them on two different dynamics of thought which gave individuality to their poems. This article offers a comparative analysis of the two poems To a Skylark by Shelley and To the Skylark by Byworth in order to show the diversity and difference that “romanticism” offers. In “On the Discriminations of Romanticism,” Arthur O. Lovejoy speaks of the error of homogenizing the concept of romanticism: “we should learn to use the word romanticism in the plural…the discrimination of romanticism that I am thinking of is not solely or mainly a division according to criteria of nationality or language. What is necessary is that any study on the subject begins with the recognition of a prima facie plurality of romanticisms, of perhaps quite distinct complexes of thought, a certain number of which may appear in a country. (pp. 235-36). For Lovejoy, discrimination is not only national or linguistic but resides in the plurality of thought complexes born from the same socio-political-cultural-geographic space. The distinctiveness of the dynamics of thought that characterize the works of the British Romantic poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries proves this position of Lovejoy's in various ways. In this article I will try to extend Lovejoy's proposal a little further and show how the two great Romantic poets, Worth and Shelly, embody two different thought complexes in two of their poems with almost the same title and addressing the same subject; that is, their distinction...... middle of paper ...... September 20, 2011. <:http://www.jstor.org/stable/457184>.Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry. Cornell University Press, 2006. Print. Keats, John, “Letters.” Enright and Chikera.256-259.Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “A Defense of Poetry.” Enright and Chikera. 225-255. Shelley's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. New York; Norton, 2002. Print. Stevens, David. Romanticism: literary contexts. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print. Wordsworth, William. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads.” English critical texts: from the 16th century to the 20th century. Ed. DJ Enright and Ernest De Chikera. OUP, 1962. 162-189. Print “Towards the Lark”. The Golden Treasure. Ed. Francis T. Palgrave. London: Macmillan, 1875; Bartleby.com, 1999.Web. October 28, 2013. <:http://www.bartleby.com/br/106.html