This document provides information about Romantic poetry and poets. It discusses the background of Romanticism as an artistic movement in Europe between 1770-1850 that transformed styles and practices. Some of the major Romantic poets mentioned include William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, and P.B. Shelley. It also defines Romanticism as emphasizing nature, emotion, imagination, individual expression, and rebellion against conventions. Key features of Romantic poetry are described as breaking from rules, interest in nature, simplicity, subjectivity, imagination, and emotions.

1. ROMANTIC POETRY
 NAME :- Shiyal Prinjal S.
 Roll No:- 26
 Enrollment No:- 2069108420190041
 Paper No:- 5 The Romantic Literature
 Year :- 2018-2020
 Course :- M.A. Sem:-2
 Submitted To:- S. B. Gardi Department Of
English, Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji
Bhavanagar University .

2. ROMANTIC POETRY
 Background :-
Romanticism is the name given to a dominant
movement in literature and the other arts-
particularly music and painting –in the period
from the 1770s to the mid nineteenth century.
 It is regarded as having transformed styles and
practices.
 It was European phenomenon, particularly
powerful in Britain, France and Germany, but
also affecting countries such as Italy, Spain, and
Poland. There was also , to some extent , An
American verson of the movement.

3.  William Wordsworth
 Samuel Taylor Coloridge
 John Keats
 Lord Byron
 P.B. Shelley
 William Blake etc.
ROMANTIC POETS

4. ROMANTICISM
 An artistic and intellectual movement in
Europe in the late 18th Century,
Characterized by a heightened interest in
nature, emphasis on the individual’s
expression of emotion and imagination,
departure from the attitudes and forms of
classicism, and rebellion from social rules
and conventions.

5. REASON OF POETRY;
 Coleridge and word worth published Lyrical
Ballads in 1798, founding the movement.
 A response to the material age and the
intellectual concepts of the Enlightenment.
 No definable structure; whatever came out
was art.

6. DEFINITION OF POETRY
 According to words worth,
“ Spontaneous overflow of powerful
emotions recollected in tranquility.”

7. MAIN FEATURES OF ROMANTIC POETRY
 Back from set rules
 Interest in natural elements
 Simplicity in style
 Subjectivity
 Endless variety
 Supernaturalism
 The predominance of Imaginations and
Emotions .

8. WORDSWORTH’S POETRY
 I wandered lonely as a cloud
 The prelude
 London 1802
 Tintern Abbey etc.
 His poetry related to effect of romantic age.

9. SUMMING UP...
 Romantic poetry is characterized by a varied
number of subjects and themes
 It insists on a return to nature.

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