This document provides an overview of several major Romantic poets from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. It summarizes some of their major works and philosophies. Wordsworth believed that man is not apart from nature. Coleridge was a precocious child and wrote poems like "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and prose works. Keats explored ideas like "negative capability" in odes such as "Ode to a Nightingale." Byron's works examined sensation and experience. Shelley's poetry dealt with themes of sadness and was not widely published during

1. Wordsworth &
Coleridge
Yesha Bhatt
Department of English, M. K. Bhavnagar
University

2. Romantic poets
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John keats
Percy Shelley
Lord Byron
Romantic poetry
Romantic poetry is the poetry of
the Romantic era, an artistic, literary,
musical and intellectual movement that
originated in Europe towards the end of the
18th century. It involved a reaction against
prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th
century, and lasted approximately from 1800
to 1850.
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3. William Wordsworth
1770-1850
Fill your paper with the
breathings of your heart
Poetry: the best words in the
best order.
If poetry comes not as naturally
as the leaves to a tree it had
better not come at all.
Fear not for the future, weep not
for the past.
The heart will break, but broken
live on.
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S. T. Coleridge
1772-1834
P. B. Shelley
1792-1822
John Keats
1795-1821
Lord Byron
1788-1824

4. William Wordsworth
Wordsworth’s philosophy toward human life is very simple
that man is not apart from nature, but is the very “life of her
life.”
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Childhood and Philosophy - “Intimations of
Immorality from recollections of Early
Childhood” and “The Retreat”
Plain teaching - “Tintern Abbey”, “The
Rainbow”, “Ode to Duty” and “Intimation
of Immorality”
Rustic life - “Michael,” “The Solitary
Reaper,” “to a Highland Girl,” “Stepping
Westward,”
Autobiographical work - “The Prelude”
Nature - “The Prelude”

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He was an extra precocious child, who
could read at the age of threes, and
before he was five, he had read the Bible
and the Arabian Nights.
He has three divisions of his works, the
poetic, the critical and the philosophical.
Poems: “A Day Dreamer,” “The Devil’s
Thoughts,” “The Suicide’s Argument,”
and “The Wanderings of Cain”, “The
Rime of The Ancient Mariner”,
“Christabel” and “Kubla Khan”
Prose:“Biographia Literaria”, “Lectures
on Shakespeare”, “Aids to Reflection”.

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John Keats
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“Nothing ever becomes real
'til it is experienced.”
Works: “Ode to a Nightingale,”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode to
Psyche,” “Ode on Melancholy,”
and “Ode to Indolence.”
Negative capability: We do need
philosophies, codes, world
views—we have to have those
things to survive. But we also
have to be able to suspend
them, because they are filtering
models. They can only tell us
what we put into them to begin
with. They can therefore keep
us, according to Keats, from
seeing something new.

7. George Gordon Byron
“The great object of life is sensation- to
feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
Works: “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”, “Don
Juan”, “The Bride of Abydos”, “The Corsair”,
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8. Percy Bysshe Shelly
“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
 Shelley’s work was not widely read in his lifetime
outside a small circle of friends, poets and
critics. Most of his poetry, drama and fiction was
published in editions of 250 copies which
generally sold poorly.
 Shelley also wrote prose fiction and a quantity of
essays on political, social, and philosophical
issues. Much of this poetry and prose wasn’t
published in his lifetime, or only published in
expurgated form, due to the risk of prosecution
for political and religious libel.
• Works: “Ozymandias”, “To a Skylark”, “Ode to
the West Wind”, “The Triumph of Life”
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