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ROMANTIC AUTHORS - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTIC AUTHORS
WILLIAM BLAKE
Life and works
London, 1757-1827
Humble and poor
Engraver
Royal Academy of Arts
Also painter
Imagination
Milton
Bible
Dante
Freethinker
Radical thoughts
Strong sense of religion
Early Romantic
Imagination
Illuminated printing
Picture
Poetic text
Prophetic books
Songs of Innocence
Before French Revolution
Narrator: Shepherd
Celebrate divine
Childhood = innocence
Simple, musical language
Songs of Experience
Period of Terror
Bard
Questions previous themes
Visual word complex
Pessimistic view of life
Adulthood
Immagination
Way to know the world
Power of creating
God
Child
Poet
Prophet
Social problems
French Revolution
Believed in principles
Disillusioned
Industrial Revolution
Evil consequences
Materialistic attitude
Exploitation of people
Style
Simple structure
Original symbols
Linear and rythmical verse
Repetition
T41,
London
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Life and works
Cumberland, 1770 - 1850
Lake District
1791: graduated
Cambridge
Revolutionary France
Democratic ideals
1793: nervous breakdown
1795: moved to Dorsey
Sister Dorothy
Journals
S. T. Coleridge
Friendship
Lyrical Ballads
, 1798
1800,
Preface
1799: Lake District
1802: marriage
Lucy poems
, 1798-1801
The Prelude
, 1805
14 books
Published after death
Poet Laureate in 1813
Late years = conservatism
English Romanticism
Poetry = solitary act
Origin = ordinary
First generation
Theorise
Man, nature, everyday things
Make them interesting
No artificial, elevated language
"poetic diction"
"Preface"
Everyday situations
Simple language
Humble rural life
Man and nature
Rousseau
Goodness of nature
Excellence of the child
Cultivation of senses and feelings
Natural world and humans
Interaction between man and nature
Inseparable
Pantheistic view
Nature = source of joy
Mighty spirit of the universe
Senses and memory
Nature = sense perceptions
David Hartley
Moral character = childhood
Simple thoughts
Sensations
Relationship with nature
Interested in his growth
Memory
Major force
Style, Poet's task
Great sensibility
Power of imagination
Knowledge
Ordinary things of life
Humblest people
Blank verse
Several verse form
T47,
Daffodils