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London 1802- Influential Writers and

Authors (Romantic)
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About William Wordsworth
Born in the Lake District of England.
Wordsworth has a huge love for nature.
Parents died when he was 13.
Entered Cambridge University in 1787.
He traveled through Europe after graduating.
He spent a lot of time in France.
It was in France he observed the ideals of the
French Revolution.
Woodworth returned to England due to lack
of funds.
Two months later England declared War on
France in 1793
Woodworth turned from politics to express his
views in his literature.
He became the father of Romanticism.
He worked together with Coleridge and
together they released Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
He is well known for his autobiographical work
The Prelude which was previous named
poem for Coleridge.
In 1798-1799 he worked on The Recluse, a
long philosophical poem.
The death of his brother in 1805 affected him
strongly.
The number of works declined after 1810,
because by then his lifestyle and view of life
had changed.
Many of the problems which he described in his
early works were for the most part resolved.
John Milton
A 17
th
century English poet.
He wrote during times of religious flux and
political upheaval in England.
He wrote many of his major works of poetry
during the Restoration period in 1660.
He protested the Commonwealth.
Romanticism
"Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of
subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
Charles Baudelaire
Romanticism began as a reaction towards the
prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the time.
It was first started by Wordsworth and Coleridge
Wordsworth would use his poetry to express his feelings
and thoughts about society.
For example, in London 1802, Wordsworth calls the English
people stagnant and selfish. He also states that English
Poet Milton was alive, things would be much better.
His hate of Industrialization.
While the Enlightenment encouraged deductive reasoning,
Romanticism emphasized intuition, imagination, and
feeling.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
Early British Romantics were inspired by the French
Revolution.
Romantic poetry was also inspired by events that preceded
the French Revolution such as the Seven Years War, the
French and Indian War, and the American Revolution.
Romantic poetry usually contains a love of nature, a sense
of nationalism, and a sense of the supernatural.
Other Romantic poetry writers
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient
Mariner
George Gordon, Lord Byron - Don Juan "Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage"
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus
Unbound "Adonais" "Ode to the west wind"
"Ozymandias"
John Keats - Great Odes "Hyperion" "Endymion"

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