Poets, Romanticism and Masculinity Readings
Poets, Romanticism and Masculinity Readings
Poets, Romanticism and Masculinity Readings
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, age 29, a month away from 30))
Drowned while sailing alone in a small craft during a violent storm
Married to Mary Wollstonecraft’s second daughter Mary, author of Frankenstein
Great friend of Byron’s.
Ozymandias
Music, when soft voices die
We are Seven
William Wordsworth (1798)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52298/we-are-seven
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/the-world-is-too-much-with-us
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) (part I only, but a great story of a doomed ship
and a man wracked with guilt!)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Argument
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the
South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the
Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the
Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.
PART I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
Darkness
Lord Byron (George Gordon)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b
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Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45132/music-when-soft-voices-die-to-
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn
Jerusalem
William Blake (1757-1827, aged 69)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/jerusalem-and-did-those-feet-in-ancient-
time
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The Tyger
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger
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