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Title: 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
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