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ROMANTICISM (FORMS :pencil2: : (POETRY📝 (poets of the second genration…

- - - - passion, spontaneity and feeling
      - the subjective and irrational part of human nature
      - the rebel, the outcast
    - - revival of the Middle-Ages :
        
        neo-Gothic architecture
        
        revisitation of medieval stories and legends
      - longing for the exotic
    - - for some romantics, nature = god
- - - - William Blake (London, 1757-1827)
        
        poor and humble origins
        
        worked as an engraver
        
        supported the French Revolution
        
        against the industrial development
        
        felt he was a guardian of the spirit and imagination
        
        had visions
        
        believed imagination allowed one to see beyond material reality
    - - William Wordsworth (Lake District, 1770-1850)
        
        supported the French revolution
        
        produced a collection of poems called the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge; first edition = 1798
        
        wrote the Preface to the second edition (1800) > the Manifesto of Romanticism
        
        was made Poet Laureate in 1843
        
        had a pantheistic view of Nature
        
        lived much of his life in the Lake District
      - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Devonshire, 1772-1834)
        
        was a republican, influenced by the ideals of the French Revolution
        
        planned a utopian community, Pantisocracy
        
        collaborated with Wordsworth to the Lyrical Ballads
        
        had a career as a lecturer on literary concerns
        
        revived interest in Shakespeare
        
        wrote his Biographia Literaria (1817)
    - - Lord Byron
      - P.B. Shelley
      - John Keats