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The Romantic poets (Nature (Wordsworth (a source of joy, inspiration and…
The Romantic poets
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The first generation
Wordsworth and Coleridge were known as Lake Poets because they lived together in the last few years of the 18th century in the district of the great lakes in Northwestern England.
In 1798, they published the Lyrical Ballads, the manifesto of English Romanticism.
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In his poems Wordsworth made poetry out of the incidents of simple rustic life, in a language that was similar to ordinary speech. Coleridge, instead, employed poetry to give credibility to the fantastic and supernatural.
From the literary point of view,
there are many features in
common between the first and
the second generation
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The second generation
Percy B. Shelley,Byron and John Keats
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were linked to individualism, escapism.
While Byron and Shelley distinguished themselves for their rebellious spirit and passionate defence of freedom, Keats was mainly concerned with pursuit of beauty, and there are many who consider him a forerunner of the Aesthetic Movement