I am very excited about this presentation. At first I planned to include background information, images, and a poem by each author. As I researched the Romantic Poets I found youtube vidoes as well as audio presentations of the poems being read. This pushed me to learn how to embed video and audio links so my students can now hear a poem by each author being read by a professional. Hearing the poems read well as the students read the words in the presentation will make such a positive difference in the student appreciation and understanding of both the poems ad the Romantic poets. I had several problems uploading this presentation. I followed instructions on the slideshare site and converted the PPT to a pdf file. Hopefully this does the trick and allows me to upload this presentation. This is my fifth try.

1. The Romantic Poets
From
“Lives
and
Works
of
the
English
Romantic
Poets”
by
Professor
Willard
Spiegelman
turned
into
a
Power
Point
Presentation
by
Kathleen
Curran
for
Advanced
Placement
Literature

2. Common
concerns
among
the
Romantics:
• They
wrote
about
Man's
relationship
to
nature,
which,
with
the
universe,
they
considered
active,
dynamic
entities.
There
is,
though,
a
counter-­‐desire
to
escape
from
nature
and
to
deny
Man's
connection
to
it.
• There
is
a
concern
with
society
and
politics,
and
an
idealistic
notion
that
humanity
can
transcend
its
enslaving
traditions.

3. The
Romantics
were
conscious
of
consciousness
itself—of
the
power
of
the
mind
as
a
force
for
self-­‐glorification
and
a
seed
of
self-­‐
destruction.

4. Lord
Byron
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/lord-­‐byron-­‐1.jpg

5. Lord
Byron
was
a
dashing,
swashbuckling
figure,
"mad,
bad,
and
dangerous
to
know"
said
a
woman
who
did
know—and
loved—
him.
A
man
of
monstrous
appetites
and
ambitions,
his
insouciance
and
supreme
self-­‐
confidence
are
reflected
in
his
agile
turns
of
phrase
and
his
audacious,
almost
cheeky
rhymes.

6. But
there
are
other
sides
to
Byron:
the
brooding
Byronic
hero,
morose
and
reclusive,
and
his
tender,
generous,
and
stoic
side.
Tthis
is
tther
sman
who
would
write
But
here
are
ohe
ides
to
Byron:
the
brooding
Byronic
hero,
morose
and
reclusive,
to
his
sister,
is
tender,
gtwilight
of
shis
truncated
and
h in
the
enerous,
and
stoic
ide.
This
life:
is
the
man
who
would
write
to
his
sister,
in
the
twilight
of
his
truncated
life:

7. Though
the
day
of
my
destiny's
over,
And
the
star
of
my
fate
hath
declined,
Thy
soft
heart
refused
to
discover
The
faults
that
so
many
could
find.
From
“Stanzas
to
Augusta”
1816

9. William
Blake
http://www.online-­‐literature.com/authorpics/blake.jpg

10. William
Blake
never
achieved
even
the
limited
fame
of
his
Romantic
counterparts,
but
his
radical,
idiosyncratically
Christian
vision
inspired
many
in
the
counter-­‐culture
movements
of
the
1960s.

11. An
advocate
of
free
love
who
remained
happily
married
for
all
of
his
adult
life,
whose
poetry
was
caustic
social
and
political
protest,
Blake
was
an
individual
in
the
extreme.
Much
of
his
poetry,
notably
the
Songs
of
Innocence
and
Experience,
seems
simple,
but
it
contains
layers
of
complexity
and
theological
sophistication.
As
Dr.
Spiegelman
puts
it,
"difficulty
is
not
the
same
thing
as
depth."

12. Here
Blake
ruminates
on
the
nature
of
darkness
and
evil
in
these
lines
from
"The
Tyger":
When
the
stars
threw
down
their
spears
And
water'd
heaven
with
their
tears:
Did
he
smile
his
work
to
see?
Did
he
who
made
the
Lamb
make
thee?

14. William
Wordsworth
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/uploads/authors/william-­‐wordsworth/448x/william-­‐wordsworth.jpg

15. William
Wordsworth
was
a
bundle
of
contradictions.
Beginning
his
career,
Wordsworth
was
involved
in
radical
political
circles;
some
speculate
that,
in
Germany,
he
was
an
agent
for
the
British
Foreign
Office.

16. His
poetry
is
marked
by
guilt,
loss,
and
inward
reflection.
Dr.
Spiegelman
puts
it
this
way:
"Wordsworth
has
struck
many
readers
as
sane,
haughty,
and
impossible
to
know.
The
man
who
called
the
poet
'a
man
speaking
to
men'
in
the
preface
to
Lyrical
Ballads
often
seems
troublingly
opaque."
Later
in
life,
though,
Wordsworth
found
himself
comfortably
ensconced
as
a
minor
celebrity,
an
elite
country
gentleman
and
the
Poet
Laureate,
light
years
removed
from
the
anxiety
of
his
youth

18. Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01975/SamuelTaylorColeri_1975686c.jpg

19. Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge
formed
one
half
of
the
greatest
intellectual
friendship
in
literary
history,
but,
for
good
and
for
ill,
he
stood
apart
from
his
protégé
Wordsworth.
In
several
handfuls
of
poems,
15
at
most,
he
transformed
English
poetry.

20. Perhaps
no
other
writer
so
gifted
as
Coleridge
was
ever
plagued
by
so
much
neurosis
and
self-­‐doubt.
Plastic
and
vast,
his
mind
contained
multitudes,
yet,
hobbled
by
an
addiction
to
laudanum
and
paralyzed
by
the
contradictions
of
his
own
self-­‐examining
processes
of
thought,
he
constantly
berated
himself
for
laziness.

22. Coleridge
could
never
be
pigeon-­‐
holed,
and
his
output
ranged
from
the
somber
tale
of
crime
and
punishment
that
is
"The
Rime
of
the
Ancient
Mariner"
to
his
gentle,
expansive
conversation
poems,
such
as
"This
Lime-­‐Tree
Bower
My
Prison."

23. Percy
Bysshe
Shelley
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Alfred_Clint.jpg/220px-­‐
Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Alfred_Clint.jpg

24. Percy
Bysshe
Shelley
similarly
resists
containment
or
easy
definition,
exploding
as
he
did
with
talent
and
creativity.
Possessed
of
almost
unnatural
physical
beauty,
Shelley
wrote
poetry
that
inclined
toward
the
metaphysical,
occupying
the
realms
of
dense,
abstract,
philosophical
thought.

25. The
same
Oxford
University
.
that
expelled
him
for
preaching
atheism
later
erected
a
statue
of
the
deceased
poet
as
a
fallen
angel.
He
had
a
very
interesting
life
that
we
will
learn
more
about.

27. John
Keats
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg/300px-­‐John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg

28. John
Keats
has
also
been
cast
as
something
of
a
fragile
beauty,
too
tender
for
this
world.
His
life
and
work
contradict
this
characterization.
These
lectures
introduce
you
to
the
genial
but
fierce
young
man
of
flaming
ambition
and
terrier
courage,
the
man
whose
indomitable
will
kept
him
going
in
his
final
months,
long
after
the
resources
of
his
body
had
abandoned
him.

29. This
spirit
and
drive
transformed
what
was,
by
all
accounts,
a
pedestrian
poet
in
1816
into
a
poet
for
the
ages
only
four
years
later.
Keats's
poetry
was
alive
to
the
last,
whether
examining
intellectual
adventure
and
wonder
in
"On
First
Looking
into
Chapman's
Homer"
or
reflecting
on
mortality
as
a
form
of
"ripeness"
in
"To
Autumn."

31. Citation
Page
1. Lives
and
Works
of
the
English
Romantic
Poets
Professor
Willard
Spiegelman