A bullet point wise and pictorial presentation of ROMANTIC POETS​ - English

1. ROMANTIC POETS
- Deekshana

2. ROMANTIC POETRY
 Poetry of Romanticism reacting against prevailing
Enlightenment ideals of the 19th century.
 Provides natural, emotional, personal and artistic
themes.
 Originated in Europe, from 1800 to1850.

3. PERCY BYSSHE
SHELLEY
 Born on August 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham,
Sussex
 Died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
 Poems were all classic & many of them were made
plays.
 His works had all good in-depth meaning to it.

4. LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY
 Describes about ones feelings for Love was beautifully
penned down.
 It says everything is connected; everything mingles
with everything else.
 Nothing stands alone without a relation to something
else.

5. JOHN KEATS
 Born on 31 October 1795, the first of Frances
Jennings and Thomas Keats
 The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual
imagery, most notably in the series of odes.

6. BRIGHT STAR
 The speaker in this poem is talking to a star.
 In the poem the tone is melancholic while the theme is
the desire to live in an unchanging state
 The speaker wants to be like a star in the sense that
the star doesn't move, and never changes.

7. WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH
 Born on April 7, 1770, in Cocker mouth, Cumberland,
England
 Worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical
Ballads (1798)

8. WORDSWORTH as a
ROMANTIC POET
 His poetry exhibits Romantic characteristics and for
his treatment towards romantic elements
 With the publication of Lyrical Ballads, the new
trends become more or less established

9. THE SOLITARY
REAPER
 The poem functions to 'praise the beauty of music and
its fluid expressive beauty, the "spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings”
 The poet orders or requests his listeners to behold a
young maiden reaping and singing to herself.

10. WE ARE SEVEN
 It describes a discussion between an adult poetic
speaker and a "little cottage girl" about the number of
brothers and sisters who dwell with her.

11. THE PRELUDE
 An extremely personal and revealing work on the
details of Wordsworth's life
 Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798 at the age of
28 and continued to work on it throughout his life.