Paper no. 103 Paper Name- Literature Of The Romantics Sem - 1

1. Name – Niyati Vyas
Sem – 1
Paper No. 103
Paper Name – Literature Of The
Romantics
Topic – William Wordsworth And
Fitzgerald
Batch – 2020-2022
Submitted To- Prof. Dilip Barad

2. THE ROMANTIC AGE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

3. • William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English
Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch
Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical
Ballads (1798).
• Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The
a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and
expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published
by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally
as "the poem to Coleridge".
• Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy
on 23 April 1850.

4.  Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) "Simon Lee"
 "We are Seven"
 "Lines Written in Early Spring"
 "Expostulation and Reply"
 "The Tables Turned"
 Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800)
 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
 "Strange fits of passion have I known"
 "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"
 "Three years she grew"
 "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal“
 Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
 "Resolution and Independence"
 "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Also known as "Daffodils"
 "My Heart Leaps Up"
 "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
 "Ode to Duty"

5. Edward FitzGerald

6.  Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883)
was an English poet and writer.
 His most famous poem is the first and best known English
translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept
its reputation and popularity since the 1860s.
 In 1853, FitzGerald issued Six Dramas of Calderon, freely
translated. He then turned to Oriental studies, and in 1856
published anonymously a version of the Salámán and Absál of
Jami in Miltonic verse. In March 1857, Cowell discovered a set
Persian quatrains by Omar Khayyám in the Asiatic Society
library, Calcutta, and sent them to FitzGerald. At the time, the
name with which FitzGerald has been so closely identified first
occurs in his correspondence: "Hafiz and Omar Khayyam ring
like true metal."

7.  First, Published algebra book Sultan So Impressed he
asked Khayyam To Develop a New Calendar and build
Astronomical observatory.
 Continued to Write a Works On Astronomy, Math,
Medicine and Philosophy but now best known for poetry.
 Ironically most of history lauded he is achievements in
science and math

8. The Translation
 FitzGerald’s translation brought the
RUBAIYAT to popularity.
 This Work Captured Imagination Of The
English Speaking World and Remains One
of Our Best Known and Most Beloved
Pieces.