Topic: The English Romanticism.

1. LiteratureEnglish Romanticism The First Generation 2* Grade High School Olga Taga Pamplona, 2010

3. Romantic Poets: William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron Percy B. Shelley John Keats

4. Aspects of the romantic movement: Disagreement, dissension amongst the poets The writers were individualists, didn’t cohere in a movement; Wordsworth influenced all the others poets, except Blake; Coleridge and Wordsworth had a good relationship; Shelley and Byron were friends;

5. There was, over the whole period, more disagreement amongst the six poets than collaboration or even sympathy; This poets didn’t think of themselves as romantic; Byron is considered to be: - an extreme romantic and a strong admirer of the 28th century poet Pope; - one of the most “classical”of all English poets;

6. Common features of the romantic poets: The romantics cultivated imaginative freedom; Used a variety of poetic forms; Tended to express the feelings of man in solitude as opposed to those of man in society; All the poets, except Blake, described the natural environment; They tended to use language with more freedom and informality than the 18th century poets;

7. They were profoundly affected by the great historical fact of the French Revolution; The romantic poets were deeply interested both in life an art; The most interesting poems were about writing poetry; Some of the features of the romantic poetry: loose forms introspection reliance on the imagination

8. Other features: d. the link between: nature – God, human being – nature, e. the poet is a genius , a prophet f. it shows the interest in the folklore, history g. it seems an imitation of popular ballads. ROMANTIC THEMES: NATURE LOVE HISTORY LITERARY FORMS: Lyric, ballad, sonnet, historical novel

9. ROMANTIC ATTITUDES: Sensibility Melancholy Individualism Rebelliousness THE FIRST GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS: W. BLAKE (1757 – 1827) W.WORDSWORTH (1770 - 1850) S.T. COLERIDGE (1772 - 1834)

11. They take refuge in: nature, past (ballads), foreign (exotic)

12. The regular meter is abolished

13. Rhyme is considered something from the past

15. William Blake (1757 – 1827)

16. William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850