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ROMANTIC POETRY WILLIAM BLAKE He was born in London in lower class family. At the age of 10 he was sent to a drawing school where he first saw copies of works by Raphael Michelangelo and others Italian artists. WORKS: SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXXPERIENCE where here we can find a lot of figure of world of innocence full of joy and happiness, Externally it seems like a Gard of Eden where we can find the lamb and the child both symbol of CHRIST. The lamb is shown as FREE and HAPPY , in the second stanza of the poem the identification of the lamb with CHRIST is confirmed by the voice of a child Blake is the first to write the “POETRY OF THE CHILD “ which takes up so much romantic poetry, because he not only describes children in his songs he is also interested in their special world ,their states of mind represented in their language. For the first time in blake we find ROMANTIC DUALISM: he rebelled his art and his life against an aristocratic concept but at the same time his marked individualism an the refusal to rely on traditions.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Was born near the LAKE DISTRICT a natural areal in which he find a source of inspiration for a whole group of English romantics poets

WORKS: the collection of poem called LYRICAL BALLADAS where we can find his idea of poetry as spontaneity of feeling expressed in common language recounting common events.This collection was made by WORDSWOTH and COLERIDGE. Both agreed to divide the task of composing the volume: -WORDSWORH produced poems based on ordinary language -COLERIDGE poems of an exotic and fantastic nature.

SAMUEL COLERIDGE Was the son of the local vicar and his father died when the poet was 8 and was sent to a charity school in London

WORKS: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER :is one of the best-known in the language and represents the major contribution to LYRiICAL BALLADAS. In this not all

ROMANTIC POETRY stanzas have four lines some have 5 or more, and some descriptions of natural scenery are longer than usual. TRAMA:. the story comes from a dream had by his friend who suggested some central episodes such as the killing of the albatross and the dead men sailing the ship.

GEORGE GORDON.LORD BYRON He was one of the best known in 19th century Europe he influenced major poets and novelists such as Goethe and a lot of composer such as bethoveen He was the incarnation of the romantic hero: bold ,impetuos he loved solitude and while in company he seems very distant.

WORKS:CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE was what we know as travelogue : a film or illustrated lecture about a journey. The description is vivid mixed with the story of the hero’s adventres. Their heroes are proud and coragious created to be like their author in fact the “Byron hero” became current in Europe

MANFRED: a play about a nobleman who lives alone in his castle in the Alphs . the centre of this work is centred on Manfred’s SPEECH which often express the romantic ideas about man and his role in society and nature.

JOHN KEATS Was born in London ,his father died when he was 8 .he developed an early admiration for the art of ancient Greece ,Keats’s love of beauty has an ethical basis . Like the ancient Greece he believed in the close union of beauty and truth. WORK: ODE ON A GRECIAN URN: where he celebrates the beautiful scenes which adorn an ancient greek urn . the ode describes an ancient Greek urn decorated with classical motifs His ode is “BEAUTY IS TRUTH ,TRUTH BEAUTY” and for this he think that Beauty is sufficient as an ideal in itself,in this sense opposes RATIONALISM because he think that life is a gift that cannot be accounted for....