5V Literature - Romanticism Part 2

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A Survey of English Literature
Romanticism -the poets 
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The Romantic poets - the first generation
  • 1789: publication of Lyrical Ballads  (William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
  • Goal: bring poetry within reach of ordinary people
  • Form: simple poems > normal, everyday language
  • Subjects: ordinary country folk and their (highly idealized) pure lives in the country

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The Romantic poets - the first generation
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
  • Probably England's greatest nature poet
  • Inspired by the Lake District
Famous for:
  • short, lyrical poems
  • Immortality Ode
  • The Prelude (long autobiographical poem

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The Romantic poets - the first generation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Famous for his art ballad
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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The Romantic poets - the second generation
George, Lord Byron  (1788-1824)
  • Notorious life-style!

Best known for two long narrative poems
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • Don Juan

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The Romantic poets - the second generation
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
  • Unconventional life
  • Husband of Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein)

Most famous for:
  • shorter verse - Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind
  • masterpiece - Adonais (long elegy on the death of John Keats)

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The Romantic poets - the second generation
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
  • Early death from tuberculosis
  • Neglected during life-time
  • Now one of England's most beloved poets

Famous for:
  • Three famous odes: On a Grecian Urn, To A Nightingale, To Autumn
  • Art ballad: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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Early 19th Century Novel
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
  • immensely popular in Britain and abroad
  • "Father of the historical novel"
  • Many books based on Scottish history
  • Most famous work: Ivanhoe (1819)

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Early 19th Century Novel
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
  • Most important novelist of early 19th century
  • "Mother of the romance novel"
  • Elegant + witty studies of young women
  • Focusing on love and common sense
Most important novels:
  • Sense and Sensibilty / Emma /  Persuasion 
  • Pride and Prejudice

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