The Three most well-known English authors are:- William Wordsworth  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  John Keats 

1. Presented By:
Komal Agarwal

2. Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and
cultural era which began in the mid/late-18th
century as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of
the day (Romantics favored more natural, emotional and personal
artistic themes),also influenced poetry. Inevitably, the
characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and
poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an
exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture
the essence of the actual ‘movement’.

3. The Three most well-known English
authors are, in order of birth and with
an example of their work:
 William Wordsworth – The Prelude
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
 John Keats – Great Odes "Hyperion"
"Endymion"

4. William
Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who,
with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age
in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
 Born: April 7, 1770, Cocker mouth, United Kingdom
 Died: April 23, 1850, Cumberland, United Kingdom
 Education: Hawkshead Grammar School, University of
Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge
 Children: Dora Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Catherine
Wordsworth,Thomas Wordsworth, William "Willy" Wordsworth
 Siblings: Dorothy Wordsworth, Christopher Wordsworth

5. William wordsworth

6. • Content  Things from ordinary life.
• Aim  To give these ordinary things the
charm of novelty.
• Style  The language of common men
purified by the poet.
• Main interest  Relationship between
man and nature; imagination as a means
of knowledge.
Wordsworth’s poetry

7. Wordsworth helped found the Romantic movement in
English literature. He also wrote-
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
Major Works….
 Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other
Poems (1798)
 "Simon Lee"
 "We are Seven"
 "Lines Written in Early Spring"
 "Expostulation and Reply"
 "The Tables Turned"
 "The Thorn"
 "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern

8.  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"
 "The Solitary Reaper"
 "Elegiac Stanzas"
 "Composed upon Westminster Bridge” (September 3, 1802)
 "London” (1802)
 "The World Is Too Much with Us"
 Guide to the Lakes (1810)
 To the Cuckoo
 The Excursion (1814)
 Laodamia (1815, 1845)
 The Prelude (1850)

9. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic
and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth,
was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a
member of the Lake Poets.
 Born: October 21, 1772, Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom
 Died: July 25, 1834, Highgate, United Kingdom
 Spouse: Sarah Fricker(m. 1795–1808)
 Children: Hartley Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, Derwent
Coleridge, Berkeley Coleridge
 Movies: Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

10. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

11. • Content  Supernatural
characters.
• Aim  To give them a
semblance of truth.
• Style  Archaic language rich
in sound devices.
• Main interest  The creative
power of imagination
Coleridge’s poetry

12. •1798  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the first poem of
the collection Lyrical Ballads.
•1816  Christabel, an unfinished narrative poem.
•1816  the dreamlike poem Kubla Khan, composed under the
influence of opium.
•1817  Biographia Literaria, a classic text of
• literary criticism and autobiography.
Main works

13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet of the Romantic
Movement, best known for his allegorical sea-faring poem,
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Poetry
 Kubla Khan
 The Suicide's Argument
 The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
 Fears In Solitude
 The Good, Great Man
 Frost At Midnight

14.  Christabel
 About The Nightingale
 Desire
 Work Without Hope
 Dejection: An Ode
 Despair
 A Child's Evening Prayer

15. John Keats
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was
one of the main figures of the second generation of
Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy
Bysshe Shelley despite his work having been in
publication for only four years before his death.
 Born: October 31, 1795, Moorgate, London, United
Kingdom
 Died: February 23, 1821, Rome, Italy
 Education: King's College London
 Movies: Arterial
 Parents: Frances Jennings Keats, Thomas Keats

16. John Keats

17. Main Works
 Poems with Hymn to Pan and the "Bacchic procession" 1817
 "O Solitude" 1816
 Poems 1817
 Endymion 1818
 "Hyperion", epic poem 1819
 "The Fall of Hyperion", epic poem 1819
English Romantic lyric poet John Keats was
dedicated to the perfection of poetry marked
by vivid imagery that expressed a philosophy
through classical legend

18.  Lamia and other poems, including his famous Hellenic odes "On a
Grecian Urn" and "To Psyche" 1820
 "Isabella" 1820
 "The Eve of St. Agnes" 1820
 "The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy" 1888 (Published after
he died)