2nd Generation Romantic poets (Lord Byron)
Romaticism's characteristics
Nature
Every human being is unique
2nd generation
Young revolutionary rebels, died young
Lord Byron
1788 (London) - 1824 (Greece)
Warrior in the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire
One of the greatest English poets ‘So, we’ll go no more a-roving’ (1817) and satirists
Lord Byron's influence on Pushkin (1799-1837)
1820-1826 “Byronic period”
The Russian Byron
Pushkin develops a more critical approach to Byron’s work
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Percy Byshhe Shelley (1792–1822)
John Keats (1795–1821)
atheist, permanent exile in Italy
"Ode to the West Wind"
The canon of English literature, tuberculosis, Italy
"Ode to a Nightingale"