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Unseen poetry: Poetry anthology poets** - Coggle Diagram
Unseen poetry:
Poetry anthology poets
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Thomas Wyatt
Renaissance poet
One of the first poets to bring the sonnet from Italy to English literature - Influenced by Petrarchan love poetry
Wrote in the court of Henry VIII where power and relationships were dangerous and political
Renaissance ideas focused on individual emotion and psychology
Courtly love was competitive and linked to status
Love often presented as frustrating, unattainable, emotionally restrained
Women presented as possessions or prizes due to Tudor court culture - uses conceits like hunting to show male desire and competition
Thomas Hardy
Victorian poet
Novelist and poet
Often classed as a naturalist writer influenced by romantic period
Proletariat - Wrote for lower class
Wrote in late Victorian period when faith in religion and progress was being questioned
Influenced by scientific ideas like Darwinism and life shaped by chance rather than purpose
Lived through rapid social change in rural England especially decline of traditional countryside life
Love shown as fragile or emotionally distant, Sense of fate, regret and missed opportunity, bleak reflective tone looking back on past
Shakespeare
Renaissance/Elizabethan poet
Sonnet writer and dramatist
Influenced by Petrarchan love poetry but challenged its conventions creating the Shakespearean sonnet
Wrote during reigns of Elizabeth I and James I
Renaissance humanism focused on human emotion, beauty, and individual experience
Shakespeare often presents love as enduring and spiritual rather than superficial, challenges traditional ideas of beauty and unrealistic romantic conventions, interested in time, change and permanence of love
Addressed his poems to The Fair Youth (1-126), The Dark Lady (127-152) and The Rival poet (76-86)
John Donne
Metaphysical poet - Renaissance period
Known for intellectual, argumentative love poetry
Wrote in a deeply religious society shaped by Protestant Christianity - later became a priest
Focused on wit, logic, paradox and conceits
Love presented as intellectual and physical, Uses argumentative speakers to persuade or seduce, combines religion, science and sex in unexpected ways
John Wilmot
Restoration poet - Enlightenment period
Libertine writer and satirist
Court poet associated with wit, excess and cynicism - hedonistic lifestyle
Wrote during restoration and after the return of Charles II in 1660
Restoration court culture became associated with pleasure, sexuality and rebellion against Puritan restraint
Libertine writers celebrated freedom, desire and scepticism about morality or romantic idealism
Love presented as unstable, physical or emotionally destructive, speakers can appear cynical or emotionally conflicted, challenged idealised romantic conventions by exposing lust and dissatisfaction, direct conversational language to create intimacy and realism
William Blake
Romantic poet
Visionary poet and artist
Critical of society and authority - dissenter
Wrote during period of Industrial Revolution and inspired by French revolution
Romanticism valued emotion, imagination, nature and individual freedom
Blake criticised organised religion, repression and social control
Love connected to innocence, freedom and natural emotion, society and institution shown as corrupting or restrictive, symbolic and religious imagery, contrasts innocence with experience and freedom
Andrew Marvell
Metaphysical poet - cavalier-influenced writer of Restoration period
Wrote during a period of political instability including English Civil War and Restoration
Influenced by metaphysical poetry's use of logic, conceits and persuasion
Carpe diem poetry was popular - encourage enjoyment before death and time to destroy beauty
Love connected to time, morality and urgency, persuasive arguments to manipulate or convince lovers, romantic imagery with darker reminders of death and decay
Richard Lovelace
Cavalier poet - Enlightenment period
Royalist - associated with elegance, honour, and courtly love poetry
Supported Charles I during `English Civil War
Cavalier poets valued pleasure, wit, masculinity, and refined behaviour
Their poetry often reacted against strict Puritan morality
Love is often playful, confident and linked to male freedom, male speakers can appear emotionally detached or unfaithful, relationships tied to ideas of honour and masculine independence, smooth, controlled language reflecting aristocratic sophistication
Lord Byron
Romantic poet (Second gen)
Aristocratic 'byronic' poet
Known for lyric poetry, satire
Wrote during romantic period when poetry focused on emotion, nature and individualism
Famous, controversial public figure in Britain and Europe
Exiled from Britain due to scandal and lived much abroad
Love is often intend, idealised and emotionally conflicted, Explores beauty and attraction alongside distance and melancholy, focus on appearance and admiration, personal emotion and experience
Christina Rossetti
Victorian poet
Associate with Pre-Raphaelite movement
Religious and devotional poet alongside lyric love poetry
Wrote during victorian era - shaped by strict morality, gender roles and religious belief
Strong influence on Christianity (high church Anglican) - restraint, temptation and salvation
Women expected to be modest, self-controlled and morally pure
Love presented as restrained and emotional, themes of sacrifice and loss, symbolic language, tension between desire and religious duty
Robert Burns
Romantic poet and Scottish national poet
Folk and lyric poet influencing by oral tradition and song
Wrote during romantic period which valued emotion, nature and individuality
Connected to Scottish identity, culture and dialect - many poems inspired by traditional Scottish songs and folk music
Love presented as sincere, emotional and personal, celebrated emotional connection over wealth or status, nature often reflects emotion and memory
John Keats
Romantic poet
Known for lyric poetry and focused on beauty, emotion and imagination
Wrote during romantic period relating against industrialisation and enlightenment rationality
Lived a short life (died at 25 from tuberculosis) which deepened his focus on morality and fragility of beauty
Valued nature, emotion and intense personal experience over logic and reason
Love linked to beauty, imagination and idealisation but also loss, Intense pleasure cannot last, tension between reality and idealisation
Ernest Dowson
Late Victorian poet
Associated with Decadent movement
Wrote in late 19th century during a time of cultural anxiety and decline in Victorian society
Decadent writers focused on beauty, pleasure, decay and emotional excess
Influenced by disillusionment with Victorian morality and stability
Part of a literary circle that valued refined emotion, melancholy and artistic escape
Love presented as fragile, doomed or melancholic, focus on longing and emotional dependency, uses lyrical language to elevate sadness into something beautiful, idealised but unattainable in reality