This document provides an overview of a poetry course, including details about the course title, code, credit hours, and level. It then summarizes some of the key pre-Romantic poets covered in the course, including William Collins, William Blake, and Robert Burns. These poets wrote in the late 18th century during the transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism and incorporated Romantic themes and feelings while still adhering to some traditional forms.

1. Course Title: Poetry
Course Code & NO.: LANE 447
Course Credit Hrs.: 3 weekly
Level: 7th Level Students
The Transitional Period
The Pre-Romantics
William Collins
William Blake
Robert Burns
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2. Pre-Romanticism
The Transitional Era
The term Pre-romantic “defines the sensibilities and spiritual
states, trends, ideas and forms that developed at the end of the
Neoclassical Period.”
The Pre romantics did not constitute a school of thought. They
were a group of writers that were influenced by the new trends,
feelings, of the end of the century.
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3. William Collins
1721-59
William Collins was a pre-Romantic English poet
whose lyrical odes adhered to Neoclassical forms
but were Romantic in theme and feeling. Though
his literary career was brief and his output slender,
he is considered one of the finest English lyric
poets of the 18th century.
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4. Robert Burns
1759-96
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5. William Blake
1757-1827
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6. William Blake
1757-1827
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7. William Blake 1757-1827 Robert Burns 1759-1796
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8. William Blake 1757-1827 Robert Burns 1759-1796 Scot
Pre-Romantics
Mad Poets
•Childhood visions (seeing God & Angeles) •Farm life (hard life)
•14 poet + painter •Masonic
•Songs of Innocence, in 1789 •Loose life
•Songs of Experience in 1794 •Lyrics – Ballads of love- folk songs
•Rejected 18th neo-classical vision •spontaneity, directness and sincerity
•Imagination is better than reason •Scottish life, poverty, and drinking
•Poetry should be understood by •Manic depression "blue devilism".
common people •Influenced the romantics, American
•Poverty writers, Russian authors (stamp)
•Burns’
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9. The Clod And the Pebble William Blake 1794 A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns 1794
Songs of Experience Dialect poem - Ballad
"Love seeketh not itself to please, O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
Nor for itself hath any care, That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie, repetition
But for another gives its ease,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
And builds a heaven in hell's despair."
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So sung a little Clod of Clay, So deep in luve am I;
Trodden with the cattle's feet, And I will luve thee still, my dear,
But a Pebble of the brook Till a' the seas gang dry. hyperbole
Warbled out these metres meet:
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun; hyperbole
"Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight, And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven's despite." And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
Concrete to present abstract And I will come again, my Luve,
hyperbole
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
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