Romantic Poets Of English

Literature

Presented By: Komal Agarwal

Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and

cultural era which began in the mid/late-18th

century as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day (Romantics favored more natural, emotional and personal artistic themes),also influenced poetry. Inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual ‘movement’.

The Three most well-known English authors are, in order of birth and with an example of their work:

William Wordsworth – The PreludeSamuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the

Ancient Mariner

John Keats – Great Odes "Hyperion" "Endymion"

POETS

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. 

Born: April 7, 1770, Cocker mouth, United Kingdom

Died: April 23, 1850, Cumberland, United Kingdom

Education: Hawkshead Grammar School, University of Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge

Children: Dora Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Catherine Wordsworth,Thomas Wordsworth, William "Willy" Wordsworth

Siblings: Dorothy Wordsworth, Christopher Wordsworth

William wordsworth

• Content Things from ordinary life.

• Aim To give these ordinary things the

charm of novelty.

• Style The language of common men

purified by the poet.

• Main interest Relationship between

man and nature; imagination as a means

of knowledge.

Wordsworth’s poetry

At the end of the 18th century, poet William Wordsworth helped found the Romantic movement in English literature. He also wrote- "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."

Major Works….Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other

Poems (1798)"Simon Lee""We are Seven""Lines Written in Early Spring""Expostulation and Reply""The Tables Turned""The Thorn""Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern

Abbey"

Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)"Resolution and Independence""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Also known as

"Daffodils""My Heart Leaps Up""Ode: Intimations of Immortality""Ode to Duty""The Solitary Reaper""Elegiac Stanzas""Composed upon Westminster Bridge” (September 3,

1802)"London” (1802)"The World Is Too Much with Us"

Guide to the Lakes (1810)  To the Cuckoo  The Excursion (1814) Laodamia (1815, 1845) The Prelude (1850)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

Born: October 21, 1772, Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom

Died: July 25, 1834, Highgate, United Kingdom

Spouse: Sarah Fricker(m. 1795–1808)Children: Hartley Coleridge, Sara

Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge, Berkeley Coleridge

Movies: Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Content Supernatural characters.

• Aim To give them a semblance of truth.

• Style Archaic language rich in sound devices.

• Main interest The creative power of imagination

Coleridge’s poetry

•1798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the first poem of the collection Lyrical Ballads.•1816 Christabel, an unfinished narrative poem.•1816 the dreamlike poem Kubla Khan, composed under the influence of opium.•1817 Biographia Literaria, a classic text of • literary criticism and autobiography.

Main works

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet of the Romantic Movement, best known for his allegorical sea-faring poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."Poetry Kubla KhanThe Suicide's ArgumentThe Rime Of The Ancient MarinerFears In SolitudeThe Good, Great ManFrost At Midnight

ChristabelAbout The NightingaleDesireWork Without HopeDejection: An OdeDespairA Child's Evening Prayer

John Keats John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was

one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death. 

Born: October 31, 1795, Moorgate, London, United Kingdom

Died: February 23, 1821, Rome, ItalyEducation: King's College LondonMovies: ArterialParents: Frances Jennings Keats, Thomas Keats

John Keats

Main WorksPoems with Hymn to Pan and the "Bacchic

procession" 1817"O Solitude" 1816 Poems 1817 Endymion 1818 "Hyperion", epic poem 1819 "The Fall of Hyperion", epic poem 1819

English Romantic lyric poet John Keats was dedicated to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery that expressed a philosophy through classical legend

Lamia and other poems, including his famous Hellenic odes "On a Grecian Urn" and "To Psyche" 1820

"Isabella" 1820 "The Eve of St. Agnes" 1820 "The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy" 1888

(Published after he died)

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