models of the past; they prided themselves on their freedom from eighteenth-century poetic codes. In Germany‚ especially‚ the word was used in strong opposition to the term classical. The grouping together of the so-called Lake poets (Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ and Southey) with Scott‚ Byron‚ Keats‚ and Shelley as the romantic poets is late Victorian‚ apparently as late as the middle 1880s. And it should be noted that these poets did not recognize themselves as "romantic‚" although they were familiar with
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and life to his works. The revolution from neoclassicism to romanticism is seen in the works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ who emphasized the importance of emotion and imagination in literature. In his Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800)‚ Wordsworth described the lyric as "emotion recollected in tranquility‚" and Coleridge‚ in his Biographia Literaria (1817)‚ defined imagination as "the repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation‚" rather
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)‚ an early leader of romanticism in English poetry‚ ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. William Wordsworth was born in Cookermouth‚ Cumberland‚ on April 7‚ 1770‚ the second child of an attorney. Unlike the other major English romantic poets‚ he enjoyed a happy childhood under the loving care of his mother and in close intimacy with his younger sister Dorothy (1771-1855). As a child‚ he wandered exuberantly through the lovely
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from it‚ much of the images and symbolism Coleridge utilizes in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner serve to personify and treat the natural world as a living entity. For one‚ the albatross is representative of nature itself. It served as a good omen to the crew‚ used as a sort of lucky charm in guiding the ship. To the mariner‚ it means
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(1772-1892)‚ “Romanticism” was an overt reaction against he Enlightenment and classical culture. • Schlegel was deeply influenced by the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)‚ and by Johann Winckelmann’s perspective of Greek art. • Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. • The Romantic artists felt that the emotional side of all things was just ass or more important that the logical or thinking mind. The Early Romantic Imagination: • William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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beliefs can still be seen in contemporary poetry. The romantic poets had high regard and appreciation of nature‚ beauty and the passive‚ female aspect of life. The six most well-known English authors are Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Lord Byron‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. William Blake was an English poet‚ painter‚ and printmaker who was unrecognised until after his death. He was born in 28 November‚ 1757. He died with illness on 12 August‚ 1827 at the age of 69
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the previous period (Enlightenment) and asserted individual freedom in their writings. For them nature and libertarianism went hand in hand. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were two of the most Important romantic poets. Wordsworth created simple poems about common people in ordinary settings. Coleridge on the other hand‚ expounded ’’Gothic’’ and supernatural themes. One of the most works that gave birth to the romantic era or‚ who initiated the beginning of the romantic movement
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What methods of characterisation does Coleridge use to portray the Wedding Guest and The Ancient Mariner? In part one of The Ancient Mariner‚ Coleridge introduces us to two characters‚ The Ancient Mariner‚ the main protagonist‚ and the Wedding Guest. Through their name‚ appearance‚ dialogue and actions we can portray a lot about them. From the title alone‚ being eponymous‚ we can infer that the events of this story will happen to the Ancient Mariner. His name especially portrays the mariner
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mentally he can still travel with his friends. Coleridge has portrayed this in the poem through the change between referring to the lime tree bower as his ‘prison’ in the 1st stanza‚ and then referring to as ‘this little lime tree bower’‚ representing his changing views that even though he may be physically stranded on the lime tree bower‚ he can still travel alongside his friends on their journey simply by remembering. By realising this‚ Coleridge has allowed himself to again reconnect with all
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Romantics favored more natural‚ emotional and personal artistic themes. The romantics of the era were painters‚ philosophers and poets. But the fame of this era lies with the poets. Such as Wordsworth and Coleridge‚ the renowned poets of this era. Other popular poets were Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ William Blake‚ John Keats‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron. Romanticism‚ according to these poets mainly was all about unabashed emotions. Wordsworth in his preface to the lyrical ballads defined romantic
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