Unit 6 The romantic age Romantic Authors in England 1. William Blake--not al ways regarded as a Romantic poet; often included in the Pre- R mantic group 2. William Wordsworth 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unit 6 The Romantic Age ◼ Romantic Authors in England 1. William Blake--not always regarded as a Romantic poet; often included in the PreRomantic group. 2. William Wordsworth 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. John eats 6. George Gordon, Lord Byron 7.Jane austen
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. John Keats 6. George Gordon, Lord Byron 7. Jane Austen
Romanticism A movement that flourished in literature philosophy, music, and art in western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of romanticism in many different times and places. many of the ideas of english Romanticism were first expressed by the poets William Worthworth and S. T. Coleridge
Romanticism ◼ A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. Many of the ideas of English Romanticism were first expressed by the poets William Worthworth and S. T. Coleridge
Assessment Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness comparable. at times. to Milton's but tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity
Assessment ◼ Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness comparable, at times, to Milton’s but tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity
a Wordsworths earlier work shows the poetic beauty of commonplace things and people as in Margaret, Peter Bell, Michael, and The Idiot boy. His use of the language of ordinary speech was heavily criticized, but it helped to rid English poetry of the more artificial conventions of 18th-century diction. Among his other well known poems are"Lucy'( She dwelt among the untrodden ways ),"The Solitary Reaper Resolution and Independence, Daffodils The rainbow and the sonnet The World Is Too Much with Us
◼ Wordsworth’s earlier work shows the poetic beauty of commonplace things and people as in “Margaret,” “Peter Bell,” “Michael,” and “The Idiot Boy.” His use of the language of ordinary speech was heavily criticized, but it helped to rid English poetry of the more artificial conventions of 18th-century diction. Among his other wellknown poems are “Lucy” (“She dwelt among the untrodden ways”), “The Solitary Reaper,” “Resolution and Independence,” “Daffodils,” “The Rainbow,” and the sonnet “The World Is Too Much with Us