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ROMANTIC POETS, GENERAL FEATURES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
        
        Reflection on death and mortality
    - - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
        
        Cotrast between purity and evil
  - - - In contrast with Neoclassicists.
        The romantic Intellectuals preferred to follow their inner self.
      - Nature:
        
        Romantic intellectuals and artists idealised the role of nature as a benign and consoling entity
        
        Beauty:
        
        Imagination:
        
        Romantic artists declared that reality is much more than what we can experience with our senses.
        
        Art:
        
        Art according to the Romantic artists, was the expression of the supreme creative power of the artist.
        
        Romantic artists gave importance to new ideas of beauty, such as the exotic, the irregular, the wild, the supernatural and the strange.
    - - In pre-Romantic poetry, Nature is often depicted both as the right place for man and as the primordial force that can contrast the dehumanising effects of the Industrial Revolution.
        
        First Generation of Romantic poets
        
        Lake Poets
        
        Coleridge
        
        He is interested in uncovering 'the supernatural’, ‘the sublime’ and ‘the fantastic' in Nature.
        
        He interpreted Nature in Neo-Platonic terms as the visible translation of hidden spiritual truths that stand at the core of what is real.
        
        Wordsworth
        
        Nature:
        
        primary source of poetic inspiration.
        
        divine healing force that permeates the universe.
        
        Second Generation of Romantic poets
        
        Shelley
        
        He exalts Nature as a majestic unifying force: THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY and inspire humans to act heroically for a better world.
        
        benign entity.
        
        Uncontrolled and distruptive force that can destroy indiscriminately and is often indifferent to human requests.
        
        Keats
- - - - Rejection of Neoclassicism
        
        Accent on spontaneous feelings
        
        Interest in the world of the self