Romantic Poetry

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Romantic Poetry
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Key Features

• Medieval
• Vernacular
• Rebellion

• Nature
• Mystical Bond

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Bad Things
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Good Things
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William Wordsworth

• 1770-1850
• English Romantic Movement
• Love of Nature
• Lake Country
• Lyrical Ballads

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Themes and Style

• Nature
• Children
• Poor
• Common People
• Ordinary Words

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Samuel Coleridge

• 1772-1834
• Small output but a large impact
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Kubla Khan, 1798

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

• 1792-1822
• Life has the features of a Romantic Hero
• Wit, satire, influence as a political and social
  thinker

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John Keats

• 1795-1821
• Biography
• Posthumous life
• Odes glory and tragedy of human existence

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Lord Byron

• 1788-1824
• Biography review
• Help to the Greeks ideals of the Romantic Hero.

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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

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Romantic Literature Poetry in America
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Transcendentalism

• Group of New England intellectuals
• Individualism
• Self-reliance
• Sympathy with nature
• Reaction against Industrialism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 1803-1882
• Nature (1836)
• Biography

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Henry David Thoreau

• 1817-1862
• Complex man of many talents
• Waldens Pond
• Civil Disobedience

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Walt Whitman

• 1818-1892
• Leaves of Grass, 1855
• thought rhythm
• Work interpreted on many levels