Romantic poets

Unfortunately, her second marriage was unsuccessful and the Keats’ family lost a large amount of their fortune. For this reason, Keats and his siblings were immediately sent to live with their grandmother. These events helped shape Keats into an amazing poet (Biography.com Editors).…

The Romantic period was a very important period for literature. It took place from the year 1785 to 1832 and was a period in which new poetry forms were explored and writing was a way in which people could express their experiences, emotions and imagination. Although there are many characteristics of the Romantic period, the rejection of industrialization, the inclusion of supernatural or mythological elements and the growing views of woman are the main characteristics in works that really show…

created the transition between old and new ways of thinking. The Romantic period was a time when certain people realized that many European societies were becoming standerdized, lacking authenticity and emotion, and because of that they rebelled and started a movement. The Romantic Movement was a reaction and direct challenge to the scientific Enlightment at the time that influenced art, literature, philosophy, and music. The term “Romantic Movement” ususally refers to the time period of…

Ballads and its preface, Wordsworth propounded the Romantic theory of poetry and proved that poetry entangled with the feelings and emotions of human mind. The Neoclassical strictness which appealed to the human reason was replaced by the fluidity and tenderness of human mind, elated with the sense of freedom. The masses or the laity who were relegated from the mainstream of literature became the fulcrum of discussion in the literary genre with the romantic revival. Romanticism kept itself away…

It has often observed of Baudelaire’s poem that it reveals an extraordinary fusion of classical permanence and an intimate, Romantic contingent--- believes that every nation and every age possesses and must possess, its own beauty. Baudelaire analyses these various and varying manifestation of Beauty into two separate elements—the eternal and the transitory. It may be argued, he showed no great originality( the idea implicates in Stendhal), but in going a step further and asserting that without…

As a romantic poet, William Wordsworth tempers with the idea of childhood, just as many romantic poets focus on children and their innocence. In his poems “We Are Seven” and “Lucy Grey” also known as “Solitude,” Wordsworth offers his readers the vantage point of viewing children in a new light. Wordsworth suggests reciprocal learning occurs between adults and children. Specifically in these two poems, children epitomize conventional discourses that need to be challenged in life. In “We Are…

of St Agnes’”, explores the idea of language and symbolism of desire in the poem ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ by John Keats. Collick holds the notion that Keats was a Romantic Era poet who viewed life as a pessimist and vicariously exemplified that in his works. Throughout his article, Collick critiques Keats’ ambiguity. Keats is known as ‘a poet concerned with dreams, visions, and images…’ (Collick) however in ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ it 's quite odd that Keats uses very distinct visual and sensual…

took voyage to the wild seas away from the real world of men. Romantics gave a luxuriant display of natural objects. They adorned, devoted, loved, followed and accepted nature religiously. They had enjoyed various bonds, ties, and relationships with nature- it being their guide, friend, philosopher, generator, provider and many more. The Victorian Age was such a period in the history of English literature where all earlier Romantics’ concepts of nature especially of Wordsworth were being…

seventeenth-century enlightenment ideas. It is based on creativity and imagination, and express dissatisfied for the reality. Romantic poet ordinarily seek for the universal truth. They believe reason and logic are the only way to truth. How do you get the truth? Feeling, emotion, passion creative energy, even imagination, are the ways to access truth. Also, nature is a great gift for them. Romantic poets love nature, like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Nature, peace and environment, gives…

William Wordsworth is an English poet who lived from 1770 to 1850, he was born on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwest of England, he is considered as one of the greatest poet in the romantic era, which is also called the Romanticism, He was an early leader of it, Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, it emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life. The…