Mary Wodstonecraft
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 456.
R. Southey
Coleridge
Wordsworth
G.G.Byron
J. Keats
Wordsworth
Blake
Coleridge 1st generation of romantic poets
P. B. Shelley 2nd young romantics
- ‘pastoral poetry', everything is filtered by the mind of the speaker
- “Preface..” – poetry- simple language about simple life
- supernatural elements, e.g. ghosts
- strange exotic phenomena
- gothic/ Christian/ welsh folklore
- a minor representative
Young poets: 2nd generation
- lived fast and die young
- rebel, but not poetically
- they don't need to invent sth new, but to improve the old poets
- talented (rhymes); different forms of writing, not afraid of adaptations; e.g. odeà they transform it
- rebel rather in their personal life, exile
- poetry not limited by form & technique
- interested in medieval times
- home's epic
William Godwin philosophers; treating seriously slogans of The French revolution
- we shouldn't be in state because state enslaves.
- Shelly is influenced by them; he marries their daughter- Mary Shelly
- Greek culture, mythology
BYRON:
- number of scandals & sexual affairs in his life
- life of romantic but when it comes to his poetry he is not a good example of romantic poetry
- “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”
- A. Pope, John Dryden- his idols, points of reference
- most of his poems abandon romantic convention
- he doesn't speak in 1st person, he hides himself
- Byron's plays; not staged: “Beppo”, “Manfred”, “Cain”
CLOSET DRAMA
(impossible to be staged because of their form or it wouldn't be interesting; long monologues meant to be read rather than staged, not a lot of action, meant to read privately)
Scottish poetry/ fascination with Scotland:
· James MacPherson “Oisin” à oisin- legendary Scottish bard (successful forgery)
· Walter Scott
- nowadays one of better known novelists, but he started as a poet
· Robert Burns
- true Scot
- different kinds of archaisms
- unhappy poet
· John Clare
- peasant (romantic wrote about village but were from aristocracy)
- his poems were more realistic because of his village background
- schizophrenic
· Thomas Chatterton
- young poet
- wrote poems & told he found them in monastery (from 15th century) & he only prepared them for print; forgery was discovered; he committed a suicide
~ romantic poets wrote also about poetry
“Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
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