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ROMANTICISM AND ROMANTIC POETS - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTICISM AND ROMANTIC POETS
First Generation
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
one of the central themes of Wordsworth’s poetry is NATURE
expression ofthe ideal in the real
LIFE
1843 was made Poet Lureate
1850 died in the Lake District
1791 became a supporter of the French Revolution
1770 in the Lake District
PRODUCTION
two long ‘travelogues’
1798 Lyrical Ballad with Coleridge
1805 The Prelude
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1815)
‘Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
LIFE
1794 met Robert Southey
1797 moved to Somerset- met Wordsworth
1772 in Devon
1798 toured Germany
1834 London
PRODUCTION
1798 with Wordsworth "Lyrical Ballad"
1802 Dejection: a ode
1797 his most famous poems "Kubla Khan"
1817 Biographia Literaria
IMAGINATION
thinks of imagination as an important creative force
two types
primary
agent of all perception
secondary
even stronger
William Blake (1757-1827)
Second Generation
John Keat (1795-1821)
LIFE
1815 student at Guy's Hospital
1816 abandoned medicine
London 1795
1820/21 Rome died
VERSE
quieter and more subtle
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819)
medieval ballad
several themes
death
illusion vs reality
love
simple language
much rhetorical figure
symbol of art
seducer and deceiver
PRODUCTION
First volume of poems 1817
1819 many poems
Ode on a grecian urn (1819)
extends the theme of the ‘lure’ of art
its capacity for deception in relation to its capacity to console
Romanticism
artistic and philosophical movement
principal elements
nature
individual
immagination
sublime