A movement in the arts and literature which originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual is known as romanticism.
P.B.Shelley and St.Coleridge are well known romantic poets. As we read through their individual works, both the endowed poets have their own qualities in writing.
The two poets have certain similarities as well as differences in their ways of writing.
P.B.Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death.The name of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the brilliant English poet from the early 19th century, is often heard in the same breath as his friends Byron and Keats, all great poets from the later romantic period. His second wife, Mary is best known for her work, “Frankenstein”. His life was tainted with tragedy as his first wife, Harriet, commit suicide drowning herself in Hyde Park, and Shelley himself died by drowning when only thirty years old.
Although Shelley was a poet from the romantic period, that’s not to say that his poetry is all about romance. Rather, romantics wrote about nature, life, pain, depression, baring their emotions.
St.Coleridge.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria.
His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases too. Samuel