Romantic poets

John Keats was an English Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. Much of Keats’ work was not well received by critics during his short life. His reputation grew after his death at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. He had a difficult childhood and experienced the loss of most of his family, which probably contributed to his concerns about his own life and mortality. In “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” Keats expresses his fear that he is alone in the world and his young life may be cut…

Walt Whitman was a poet who lived throughout most of the nineteenth century and drew a wide following by disregarding “classic” conventions and using imagery that angered many. Whitman promoted himself greatly by writing anonymous reviews of his own work and sending his work to other prominent poets and writers for reviews and support. He worked in many areas of the newspaper business before becoming a nurse during the Civil War. He believed in transcendentalism. The theory that everything and…

The poem was composed as that were travelling from Tintern to Bristol. The poem was written down only when the poet reached Bristol. It is Tintern Abbey that we see for the first time Wordsworth as a true worshipper of nature. It shows his romantic passion for nature and in which he gives us highly emotional descriptions of the effects of the outer works upon his own inner self. The poet revisits the Wye after a lapse of five years and the old pictures revives in his mind. He looks forward to…

an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement which associates with the scientific and the artistic changes and it rejected romantic ideas. The…

a British poet who lived in 17th century. His poems cover a wide variety of themes: from the love to politics and nature’s role in people’s lives. Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience as a cloud that saw a filed of daffodils during its everyday trip. While many poets were…

Throughout the Romantic Era, literature, particularly poetry, began to encaptivate the sublime within nature and poets were drawn to vivid and imaginative descriptions of the natural world. Following this period of innovation, Emily Dickinson arose and through a distinctive meter and form, took continued to integrate ideas of nature into poetry. Dickinson took a more realist approach and wrote with a unique individuality which while unpopular at the time, now stands as some of America’s most…

The Romanticism movement arose as a reaction to the enlightenment period; literary works of this time often reflected on a society that was lost to science and pseudo intellectuals. In general, the movement was characterized as the shifted focus from puritan works to works that stressed the importance of imagination and the value of emotion over intellect. Authors of this time period criticized the disconnect between the mind and the soul. The industrial revolution drew people even further away…

Keats and Blake alike are few in a long list of influential Romantic poets who defined a generation. Two of their poems, ‘To Autumn’ and ‘London’ respectively both share the similar quality of being ‘deceptively’ simple in structure, but strewed within their rigid and formulaic structure, are layers and layers of symbolism and allegory. Though at a first glance, there is quite a lot separating the two distinct poems, but as pieces of thought-provoking, and personal literature, how well do both…

The romantic movement that thrived in the early nineteenth century was made up of artists, writers, musicians, and others who made a plea to the intellectual culture of the time to free human emotion and expression of personality (Perry et al. 505). Though the emphasis on individuality created complexities among different romantics in what romanticism truly could be define as, it ultimately "exalted imagination, intuition, and feelings" (Perry et al. 506), and emphasized humans "innate love of…

climes", “starry skies”, “shade”, “ray” or “raven tress”. Third, literature tends to focus on female qualities. Therefore, poets are usually used sing to women to praise their qualities. This is exactly what Byron tries to do in this poem when he focused on the qualities of the woman that he has never met before and his feelings at that moment. Mostly, we find this Romantic characteristic in Middle Ages. “She walks in Beauty” is consisting of three stanzas of six…