English 2323 Reading Assignment 1 The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Online Period Introduction Overview and Period Introduction Quizzes I am assigning the online period introduction overviews and online quizzes for both the 8th and 9th editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (NAEL) because each provides some information that the other does not. As you will see in the reading list below‚ I have also assigned the introduction to this literary period in your textbook and provided the
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and for their highly elevated ideas and themes. 4) The “Big six” poets of Romantic poetry are: William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Coleridge‚ Lord Byron‚ Percy Shelley‚ and John Keats. 5) William Blake was known for having a strong depth in many of his poems and for having the ability to express the feelings of joy and innocence. 6) William Wordsworth was known for vividly describing the experience with nature. 7) Samuel Coleridge was known for his long poems‚ The Rime
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great scientist absorbed in a calculation but apparently unaware both of his own natural nakedness and of the beauty of the world symbolized by the wonderfully colored rock upon which he is sitting. The second generation of Romantic poets‚ Keats‚ Shelley and Lord Byron were also revolutionaries. All grew up under a repressive‚ reactionary Tory government which had been quick to point out what ‘power to the people’ had led to in France. Shelley’s crusade in the name of liberty led him to fall out with
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In “We Are Seven”‚ William Wordsworth describes the attitude of an eight year-old girl toward the death of her two siblings. In “January 22nd. Missolonghi“‚ George Gordon‚ Lord Byron has the perspective of a man past his youthful prime and is considering that the best way to die is to go out in a blaze of glory as a soldier. In “Mutability”‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley promotes the stoic view of the inevitability of death and how brief life is. In “Mutability”‚ Shelley alludes to the brevity of
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ROMANTICISM (first half of 19th cent.) • Romantic poetry – two generations: • „Lake school“ (Wordsworth‚ Coleridge) • Byron‚ Shelley‚ Keats • Romantic novel – historical novel (Sir Walter Scott) – gothic novel‚ horror (Mary Shelley) The Lake Poets The Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge The second generation George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale Other romantic poets • William Blake:
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force or spirit that lies only within a man’s inner self became apparent in the works of Romantic poets. In one of his poems‚ William Wordsworth seeks this supreme force as he cries out‚ “Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!/ Thou Soul‚ that art the Eternity of thought!” (“Influence of Natural Objects”‚ lines 1-2‚ RPO). He personifies the universe
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which established a foundation for which still exists in modern day Britain. There were six major Romantics‚ and they were split into two generations. The first generation consisted of William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The second generation consisted of Percy Bysshe‚ John Keats‚ and George Gordon‚ Lord Byron. These poets were considered old-fashionedbecause they were the first to experiment with this style of writing. There was no one before them‚ so for influence they
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as covering the years between the 1780s and 1830s. There are however key people who are involved in cementing certain expressions. By critical consensus the Romantic poets are the six male poets: William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Colleridge‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley ‚ John Keats and Lord Byron. Together‚ it has been argued‚ they formed a literary known as ’Romanticism’‚ which mark a profound shift in sensibility. They demonstrated the creative imagination‚ a new way of looking nature
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Percy Busshe Shelleys Hymn to Intellectual Beauty is a good example of a Romantic poem‚ because it is specific in focusing in on the Romantic genre of poetry that elevates the common mans experience to the sublime. (6) The relevance produced by this poetry‚ whether it is an abundance of emotion expressed by Wordsworth‚ a philosophical initiative presented by Coleridge‚ or a spiritual awakening depicted by Shelley‚ is sparked by the tenor of social and political circumstances at the time. A few of
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