Romantics agreed on a definition of Romanticism. Were the six great figures of Romanticism; Blake‚ Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats‚ to be put in a room together they would probably have falling outs - so different were they philosophically‚ personally‚ and artistically. Yet there is a common element‚ a binding element – and one expressed most clearly in the poetry of William Wordsworth. What all the Romantics shared was a reaction against a conception of poetry conceived by the Classicists
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The poet William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) believes that every human being is a sojourner in the mortal world‚ whereas his real home being heaven. In fact‚ the poet starts with the major premise that men descend form God. To Wordsworth‚ God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature‚ and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of humankind. Man has his soul which knows no decay and destruction. But as one is born‚ one begins to be confined within the flesh. The soul‚ bound in
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According to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action‚ which are called reason and imagination‚ the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another‚ however produced‚ and the latter‚ as mind acting upon those thoughts so as to color them with its own light‚ and composing from them‚ as from elements‚ other thoughts‚ each containing within itself the principle of its own integrity. The one is the το ποιειν‚ or the principle of synthesis‚
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Mary Shelley was born on August 30‚ 1797‚ becoming a distinguished‚ though often neglected‚ literary figure during the Romanticism Era. Mary was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft‚ a famous feminist‚ but after her birth‚ Wollstonecraft passed away (Harris). Similar to Mary’s book Frankenstein‚ both her and Victor’s mothers die when they are at a very young age. Mary’s father was William Godwin‚ an English philosopher who also wrote novels that would inspire Mary in the late years of her life (Holmes)
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The Life and Literary Works of Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (August 30th 1797- February 1st 1851) was born in London England and was an editor‚ dramatist‚ essayist‚ and novelist best known for her novel Frankenstein (1818). Her father‚ William Godwin‚ was a political philosopher‚ and her mother‚ Mary WallStonecraft‚ was a philosopher and feminist. Mary Shelley’s mother died when she was 11 days old due to complications from child birth. Although Mary received little formal education
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Comparison between Wordsworth’s and Keats’s poetry. ____ Wordsworth and Keats both belongs to Romantic age and both are the shining stars on the horizons of poetry. Both mark their names in the history of English literature through their work. ___John Keats and William Wordsworth believe in the "depth" of the world and the possibilities of the human heart. Regardless of where each poet looks for their inspiration they both are looking for the same thing; timeless innocence. Both poets sought to
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British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚ Wordsworth focused on the nature‚ children‚ the poor‚ common people‚ and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion
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instead of being the “king of kings” he turns up to be the king of fools. The statue is described as a "colossal wreck boundless and bare" and this totally contradicts the reason for which it was built. The condition of the stones described by Shelley only highlights the despair of the king described by sculptor’s hand. The sculptor gave us a picture of a powerful king
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The Impact of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth‚ the age’s great Bard‚ had a significant impact on his contemporaries. Best known for his beautiful poems on nature‚ Wordsworth was a poet of reflection on things past. He realized however‚ that the memory of one’s earlier emotional experiences is not an infinite source of poetic material. As Wordsworth grew older‚ there was an overall decline in his prowess as a poet. Life’s inevitable change‚ with one’s changes in monetary and social status‚
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time‚ but for a universal one. * He remarks: “Scenery is fine‚ but human nature is finer” The common Romantic tendency to identify scenes and landscapes with subjective moods and emotions is rarely present in his poetry It has nothing of the Wordsworth pantheistic conviction‚ and no sense of mystery. * He’s a Romantic poet thanks to his belief in the supreme value of imagination. IMAGINATION: - the world of
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