William wordsworth V/S colleridge

1. TOPIC: William Wordsworth v/s S.T
Colleridge
Name: Nasim R Gaha
Roll No: 22
Email- id: gahanasim786@gmail.com
Enrollment No: 2069108420190014
Paper No: 5 ( ROMANTIC LITRATURE)
Submitted: Department of English

2. The poets of Romanticism
William Wordsworth ( 1770-1850)
S.T Coleridge ( 1772-1834)
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Walter Scott (1771-1843)
George Gordon Lord Byron:(1788-1824)
Percy Bysche Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795- 1821)
Charles Lamb(1775-1834)
Thomas de Quincy( 1785-1859)

3. William Wordsworth
Life of Wordsworth
• He was born in 1770 in a little
town in the lake District in the
north West of England.
• When he finished his degree
he returned to France and
became a passionate
supporter of the democratic
ideals of the French
revolution.
• He was a major English
romantic poet.

4. Life of William Wordsworth
 He was a great innovator
 He found his greater in aspiration in nature
 Outwardly his long and uneventful. He divides itself naturally into four
periods.
1. His childhood and youth in the Cumberland hills from 1770 to 1787.
2. A period of uncertainty,of storm and stress, including his university life at
cambridge, his travels abroad, and his revolutionary experience, from
1787 to 1799.
3. A short but significant period of finding himself and his work, from 1787
to 1799.
4. A long period of retirement in the northern lake region, where he was
born and where for a full half century he lived so close to nature that
her influence is reflected in all his poetry.
Where he was born and where for a full half century he lived so close to
nature that her influence reflected in all his poetry.

5. Works of Wordsworth
• Descriptive sketches
• An evening walk
• Lyrical Ballads
• Poems in two volumes
• The Excursion
• The Prelude
• The Preface to Lyrical
Ballads

6. S.T Coleridge
Life of Coleridge
• Coleridge was born in otter
St.Mary, Devonshire.
• He was the youngest of all
the thirteen children of
John Coleridge.
• He could read at the age of
three; before five he had
read the Bible and the
Arabian Nights.
• From three to six he
attended a ‘Dame’ School.

7. Works of Coleridge
• Lectures 1795 on Politics
and Religion
• Frost At Midnight
• Christabel
• Rime Of The Ancient
Mariner
• Lectures, 1808-1819, on
Literature
• Biographia Literaria
• Dejection: An Ode
• The Nightingale