This is a Presentation of Romantic poets

1. Name : Nidhi B. Dave
M.A. Sem-1
Paper -5
AHistory of English Literature
Presentation Topic : The Romantic Poets
Submitted to : Department of English, MKBU

2. PoetsofThe
RomanticAge:

3. AboutThe
Romantic
Poets:-
 Today the word ‘romantic’ evokes images of love and
sentimentality, but the term ‘Romanticism’ has a much
wider meaning. It covers a range of developments in
art, literature, music and philosophy, spanning the late
18th and early 19th centuries. The ‘Romantics’ would
not have used the term themselves: the label was
applied retrospectively, from around the middle of the
19th century.
 The best known Romantic poets are “ William
Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats .’’
 Lets discuss about some of the key figures of romantic
era in detail…

4. Romenticism
 Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th
century, and in most areas was at its peak in the
approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism
was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and
individualism as well as glorification of all the past and
nature, preferring the medieval rather than the
classical.
 In the second half of the 19th century, Realism was
offered as a polar opposite to Romanticism.. The
decline of Romanticism during this time was associated
with multiple processes, including social and political
changes.

5. JohnKeats
 John Keats ( 31 October 1795- 23 February 1821) was
an English Romantic Poet.
 He was one of the key figures in the second generation
of the Romantic movement.
 The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual
imagery.
 Keats as the supreme lover of beauty says, “ A thing of
beauty is joy forever”.
 Keats became famous after his death for the Power
and vivid imagery of his “Odes and Epic .”
 He was leading of Romantic poet.

6. MajorWorkOf
JohnKeats:-
“A Thing of Beauty
(Endymion)”
“Bright Star”
“La Belle Dame
Sans Merci”
“Ode On A Grecian
Urn”
“Ode To A
Nightingale”

7. Themesin
Keats’poetry
Beauty
Love
Nature
Fancy
Power
Pain

8. William
Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a born in 7 April,
1770 in Cocker mouth, in northwest England.
He is a major English romantic poet.
He was based in the Lake Distric, England.
His first published work, a sonnet in the
European Magazine.
The key words of English romanticism are
nature and imagination.

9. MajorWorks
The Prelude
The Excursion
London
“Ode to Duty”
“We are Seven”
“ Lyrical
Ballads”,(
with a Few
Other Poems)
“The solitary
Reaper”

10. Themesin
William
Wordsworth’s
poetry
Nature
Imagination
Human life

11. e
lTaylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was
an English poet Literary critic
and philosopher.
Wonderful supernatural poems
like ‘The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’.
Poetry is the lava of
imagination.
Consider as most stylistically
and intellectually profonde
English Romantic poet.

12. Coleridge-Theme
&Works
THEME
Mystery and
Supernatural
Metrical Art
Imagination
Dreaminess
WORKS The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Human Life
Kubla Khan
Lines
To Nature
Work Without Hope
What is Life?

13. GeorgeGordon
Byron:-
 George Gordon Byron was born on January 22 ,1788.
 Lord Byron Was an English poet who was a leading
figure in the Romantic Movement.
 Lord Byron is best remembered for his poetry which
include the classic poetry collections “child’s Harold’s
pilgrimage and Don Juan.”
 Byron died in Greece in 1824.

14. GeorgeGordon
Byronworks:-
All Is
Vanity ,
Saieth the
Preacher
Prometheus
She Walks
in Beauty
The Eve of
Waterloo
When We
Two Parted

15. PercyBysshe
Shelley:-
 Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English
Romantic poets ,Widely regarded as one of the
greatest lyric and philosophical poet in English
language.
 Shelley is called the poet of hope and Regeneration.
 Shelley is best know for classic poem such as
 “Ode to the West Wind”
 “Ozymandias”
 “To a Skylark”
 “Thomas Love peacock”

16. Conclusion:-
 Romantic poet cultivated Individualism , reverence for
the natural World ,idealism , physical and emotional
passions.
 The Romantic poets started that nature has bestowed
,unwearied joy to mankind.
 They even believed that nature has answer for all
unanswered question.

17. Thank YOU

18. Refferance
 https://www. Poetseers. Org/ the romantics/
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic- poetry
 https:// www.bl.uk/ romantics – and –
Victorians/articles /the - romantic