RomanticPoets.pptx

Romantic Poets in British Literature ;The Romanticism’s subject matters The romantic’s subject matters include the love of nature in all its aspects; The love of mankind and of country; The yeaning for the remote in space and time, with particular reference to the medieval and the primitive; ;The passion of the poet’s own inmost thoughts and feelings---restless, unsatisfied, ever changing; The contemplation of death and the awesome terror inspired by the thought of eventual dissolution, complicated by the revival of the age-old interest in supernatural. ;1. William Blake, a precursor of Romanticism in England ;;Blake, William?(1757-1827),?English poet, painter, and engraver, who created a unique form of illustrated verse; his poetry, inspired by mystical vision, is among the most original, lyric, and prophetic in the language. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another.” “Without contraries is no progression.” “The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.” ;2. William Wordsworth (1770---1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772---1834) ;;; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772---1834) ;; William Wordsworth (7 April 1770?– 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworths masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem to Coleridge. Wordsworth was Britains Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. ;William Wordsworth composed flowing blank verse on the spirituality of nature and the wonders of human imagination. In “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807), Wordsworth considers the Platonic notion that human