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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Let the Romantic Period Begin…. Lyrical Ballads. Published in 1798 Tintern Abbey Rime of the Ancient Mariner Began the Romantic Period. William Wordsworth. 1770-1850 Orphaned in 1783 Degree from Cambridge, 1791 No head for business

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  1. William WordsworthandSamuel Taylor Coleridge Let the Romantic Period Begin….

  2. Lyrical Ballads • Published in 1798 • Tintern Abbey • Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Began the Romantic Period

  3. William Wordsworth • 1770-1850 • Orphaned in 1783 • Degree from Cambridge, 1791 • No head for business • 1791, went to France to learn the language • Inspired by Revolution

  4. William Wordsworth • Disillusioned about potential for change • Reunited with sister, Dorothy • 1795, inherited money • 1797, met Coleridge • 1798, Lyrical Ballads

  5. The Best Poet of the Age • Poetry: “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” produced by someone who has “thought long and deeply” (Wordsworth).

  6. “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! This suggests? This suggests?

  7. This suggests? -- Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! This is one of five “Lucy” poems. How did he feel about Lucy? Did you see this coming?

  8. The World is Too Much With Us • 1807 • Sonnet: 14 lines, shift in thought • Wordsworth realized his creative powers were beginning to fail • Response to accusations of conspiring against society, being an enemy of society

  9. The World is Too Much With Us a The world is too much with us; late and soon, b Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: b Little we see in Nature that is ours; aWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! a This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; b The winds that will be howling at all hours, b And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers; a For this, for everything, we are out of tune; Tone?

  10. How did the pagans differ from today’s men? The World is Too Much With Us c It moves us not. –Great God! I’d rather be d A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; c So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, d Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; c Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; d Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Would we be happier if we were more ‘in tune’? Is this still pertinent today? Tone?

  11. Literary Form • Sonnet • Italian, Petrarchan: octave and sestet • Shakespearean: 3 quatrains, couplet • Ode • uses heightened, impassioned language • addresses an object

  12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge • left university with no degree – commitment to utopian colony in America • depressed: addiction to opium, failed marriage • “Sage of Highgate” • profound philosopher and guiding spirit

  13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Called Wordsworth the “the best poet of the age” • Wordsworth called Coleridge “the most wonderful man I’ve ever known” • Loneliness came from lifelong need for affection and support not available in an isolated writer’s life

  14. Love of Language Kubla Khan p. 846

  15. Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Exploration of the ‘unreal’/imagination • ‘Ballad’ in seven sections • Love • Shame • Isolation • Page 820

  16. Albatross

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