Romantic Poetry and Poets . Wordsworth and Coleridge

1. Wordsworth and
Coleridge as a romantic
Poet
Prepared by : Nidhi Dave
M.A. Sem-1
Paper – 3-Literature of romantics
Batch -2021/23
Submitted to- Department of English
MKBU

2. William Wordsworth:-
 William Wordsworth ( 7 April-
1770- 23 April- 1850) a major
English romantic poet, was born
at Cockermouth, Cumberland, a
town outside the Lake district.
His father was a lawyer, died
when he was thirteen years old.
So the orphan was the orphan
was taken in charge by some
relatives, who sent him to
school at Hawkshed in the
beautiful lake region.
 He died in Rydal mount on
April23,1850

3. S. T .Coleridge
 Coleridge was born in Devonshire in 1772. As a child he was unusually precocious. He
was a poet, literary critic and a philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth ,
was a founder of the ROMANTIC movement in ENGLAND and a member of the
LAKE POETS.
 His depiction of feelings if alienation and numbness helped to define more sharply the
Romantics idealized contrast between the emptiness of the city where such feelings are
experienced and the joys of nature.

4. S.T. Coleridge
 The real blossoming of Coleridge’s poetical genius was brief indeed, but
the fruit of it was rich and wonderful.
 His first book was “Poems on Various Subjects” (1796), issued at Bristol.
Then, in collaboration with Wordsworth he produced the ‘Lyrical Ballads’
(1798). This remarkable volume contains nineteen poems by Wordsworth
and four by Coleridge, and of these four by far the most noteworthy is
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.

5. Wordsworth’s Definition of poetry:-

6. Language/ Diction of poetry ( style of poetry)
He discarded the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many
modern writers.
He insist that ‘ his poems are written in selection of
language really used by men in a state of vivid sensation.
His views on poetic diction can be summed up as “
there neither is nor can be any essential difference
between the language of prose and metrical composition.

7. · What is a poet?
o He is a man speaking to men, endowed with more lively sensibility, more
enthusiasm and tenderness. He has a greater knowledge of human nature
and a more comprehensive soul.
His treatment of Nature:
 His dealing with nature is his chief glory as a poet. Even the slightest of
his poems have evidence of close observation.
 He says: To me the meanest flower that blow can give Thoughts that do
often lie to deep for tears.

8. Subject matter
William
Wordsworth
• Childhood
manners.
• Rustic ,humble
and common life.
• Beautiful forms of
nature.
S.T Coleridge
•Super natural
,extraordinary and
mysterious elements
that can be in human
nature.
•Nature is not only subject
matter ,he also talk
about psychology of
character.

9. Poems
Wordsworth
 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
 The Solitary Reaper.
 London.
 Michael.
 Ode: Intimations of Immortality.
Coleridge
 Kubla Khan
 The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner
 Christabel
 Frost at Midnight.

10. Characteristics of Wordsworth’s poetry
Imagination Nature
Human Life

11. Characteristics of Coleridge’s poetry

12. Conclusion
Both the poets are great in their poetry expression ,
style of both the poets are completely different from
each other though they consider as the greatest
romantic poets.

13. Thank You