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Romantic Poetry. Medieval Vernacular Rebellion. Nature Mystical Bond. Key Features. Bad Things. Good Things. William Wordsworth. 1770-1850 English Romantic Movement Love of Nature Lake Country Lyrical Ballads. Themes and Style. Nature Children Poor Common People Ordinary Words.
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Medieval Vernacular Rebellion Nature Mystical Bond Key Features
William Wordsworth • 1770-1850 • English Romantic Movement • Love of Nature • Lake Country • Lyrical Ballads
Themes and Style • Nature • Children • Poor • Common People • Ordinary Words
Samuel Coleridge • 1772-1834 • Small output but a large impact • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Kubla Khan, 1798
Percy Bysshe Shelley • 1792-1822 • Life has the features of a Romantic Hero • Wit, satire, influence as a political and social thinker
John Keats • 1795-1821 • Biography • “Posthumous life” • Odes – glory and tragedy of human existence
Lord Byron • 1788-1824 • Biography review • Help to the Greeks & ideals of the Romantic Hero.
Search For • Assonance – similarity in sound of vowels with different consonants • Stony and holy • Tone color – sounds like music • timbral • Lyric Poetry – poetry marked by individual emotion • Alliteration – repetition of initial sounds • Wild and wooly
Transcendentalism • Group of New England intellectuals • Individualism • Self-reliance • Sympathy with nature • Reaction against Industrialism
Ralph Waldo Emerson • 1803-1882 • Nature (1836) • Biography
Henry David Thoreau • 1817-1862 • Complex man of many talents • Walden’s Pond • Civil Disobedience
Walt Whitman • 1818-1892 • Leaves of Grass, 1855 • “thought rhythm” • Work interpreted on many levels