This document provides information about William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge, two major English Romantic poets. It discusses Wordsworth's life, born in 1770 in the Lake District of England, and his works including Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and more. It also outlines Coleridge's life, born in Devonshire in 1772, and his notable works such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Biographia Literaria. The document serves as source material for a paper on Romantic literature comparing Wordsworth and Coleridge.

1. TOPIC: William Wordsworth v/s S.T
Colleridge
Name: Nasim R Gaha
Roll No: 22
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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