Romantics

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The Romantics
Romantic Movement in Literature began with the storm of Bastilla in Paris and the first spilling of
blood in the French Revolution.
Germany helped to sustain English Romanticism for a long time.
The key year for the English Romanticism is not 1789, but 1789.
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
He was insistent that the langage of poetry should be the language of the ordinary men and women.
He was against poetic diction.
He wanted to return imaginatio, legend, the human hearth, nature.
Shelley made this claim: 'Poets are the trumpets which sing to battle; poets are the unacknowledged
legislators of the world.'
Wordsworth is neither Christian, deist, nor rationalist. He is best described

as a Pantheist one who identifıes the natural universe with God.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (also known as "Ode",

"Immortality Ode" or "Great Ode") is a poem by William Wordsworth, completed in 1804 and
published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).
The Ecclesiastical sonnets, William Wordsworth ended his days writing that.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge's three great poems -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel,Kubla Khan
Biographia Literaria
George Gordon Byron
Byron’s reputation in Europe has always been greater than his reputation in England.
His poetry is essentially self-centred.
He lost his life dying for the cause of Greek independence.
Don Juan: Social Criticism
Childe Harold
Cain (Kabil)
lyrics-' My days are in the yellow leaf'
He was really fan of Greeks.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
At 21 She wrote Queen Mab, a long philosophical poem
The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, Hellas

The Sensitive Plant
Epipsychidion
Ode to the WestWind
Adonais
we meet a mature mysticism, a serene philosophy of life which denies death and affirms the
immortality of the human spirit, and throughout his work we fınd a technical mastery of traditional
verse-forms-Spenserian stanza, couplets, blank verse, terza rima (the form Dante used in the Diviııe
Comecfy)and an eloquence and music unmatched among English poets of the time.
John Keats
John Keats, yalnızca 25 yıl süren yaşamı boyunca üç kitap yayımladı: Poems (1925), Endymion (1818),
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820).
Şiirlerinde, çevrede görülen sıradan nesnelerden hareketle evrensel düşüncelere açılan kapıları
imgeler yoluyla yansıtır. Keats, İngiliz şairlerle ilgili bütün ulusal ve yabancı antolojilerde her zaman
yer alan, en çok bilinen ve sevilen şairlerden olagelmiştir. Derin, duygulu ve hırçın bir karakteri vardır.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Other Minor Romantic poets
Thomas Campbell Hobenlinden and the Battle of the Baltic
Thomas Hood for pathetic humanitarian poems like The Song of the Shirt and The Bridge of Sighs
John Clarke
Keats died of tubercu losis, Shelley was drowned, Byron died of fever, Clare went mad.
Walter Savage Landor, a Ben Johson of his age.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Bride’s Tragedy and Death’s Jest Book.
America made a considerable contribution to the Romantic movement.
Edgar Poe may well be regarded as the father of a whole nineteenth-century literary movement in
France.
Sir Walter Scott was both poet and novelist.
Poems which glorified Scotland’s scenery and historym The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, The
Lady of the Lake made him wealth and famous.
Scott’s themes are historical. They deal with the Europian history, sometimes French, as in Quentin
Durward.
The novels about Scotland’s past include Waverley, Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The heart of Midlothian,
The Bride of Lammermoor.
England in the time of the Tudors and Stuarts is the theme of The Fortunes of Nigel,
Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, and so on,

Jane Austen
The first important woman novelist.
She briges the gap between 18 and 19 yy.
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbry, and Persuasion
Maria Edgeworth who produced instructive novels for children, with Lady Morgan, first in the field of
the Irish novel.
Miss Mitford Our Village Sketches of Rural Life, Character and Scenery
Thomas Love Peacock, known also as a poet, wrote a new kind of novel, anti romantic, satirical
Charles Lamb is noted for his Essays of Elia in which he developed a prose-style owing much to
Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, and the Elizabethan poets and dramatists.
Literary Criticism
Charles Lamb
William Hazlitt
Leigh Hunt
Thomas De Quincey
Charles Lamb He is the fathr of that kind of English humour which derives its effects from sel-
mockery.
With his sister Mary Lamb he provided a children's book which is still much read: Tales
fromShakespeare, a useful series of stepping-stones to the great plays.
Hazlitt
Lectures o the English Poets, Lectures on the English Comic Writer.
His Spirit of the Age, which deals with his contemporaries, shows certain prejudices, making him
unjust to poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge who, in his view, betrayed in their later work the
principles they had proclaimed in their earlier writings.
Leigh Hunt
his Autobiography gives a useful picture of the age and its literary and political personalities.

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Germany helped to sustain English Romanticism for a long time.

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

He was against poetic diction.

He wanted to return imaginatio, legend, the human hearth, nature.

Wordsworth is neither Christian, deist, nor rationalist. He is best described

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (also known as "Ode",

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Gordon Byron

His poetry is essentially self-centred.

He lost his life dying for the cause of Greek independence.

Don Juan: Social Criticism

lyrics-' My days are in the yellow leaf'

He was really fan of Greeks.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

At 21 She wrote Queen Mab, a long philosophical poem

The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, Hellas

Ode to the WestWind

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Other Minor Romantic poets

Thomas Campbell Hobenlinden and the Battle of the Baltic

Walter Savage Landor, a Ben Johson of his age.

America made a considerable contribution to the Romantic movement.

Sir Walter Scott was both poet and novelist.

Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, and so on,

The first important woman novelist.

She briges the gap between 18 and 19 yy.

Lectures o the English Poets, Lectures on the English Comic Writer.

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