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excelled in literature and drawing
william blake
followed techings of rousseau
william blake
supported the french revolution
william blake
published the lamb
william blake
little lamb who made thee
a: Jesus Christ
the garden of love
condemns the seventh commandment
member of the lake school of poets
william wordsworth
beleived poetry should treat common subjects and use language of ordinary people
wiliam wordsworth
beleived he learned directly from nature - the unseen power that indwells all things
wiliam wordsworth
the most important poetic acheivment of british romanticism
the prelude by william wordsworth
i wandered lonely as a cloud
compares daffodils to stars using a similie
the prince of english essayist
charles lamb
worked as a bokkeeper in his spare time
charles lamb
wrote a childrens version of shakespear
charle lamb and his sister mary
used elia as his pen name
chrales lamb
resided in london
charles lamb
characteristics of the familiar essay
relaxed style
use of ordinary life as the subject
a preferance for feeling and imagination
direct self revelation
old china
initial subject os the speakers attraction to the old art of fine china
has circular structuyre
became heir to uncles title, estate, and modest fortune at ten years old
gerge gordon, lord byron
byronic hero charcterized by–
arrogance, anguish, sullenness and solitude, and self-will and rebellion
she walks in beauty
consisdered beautiful for her character than her natural beatuy
idealism
states that all knowledge has its source in self
primitivusm
a preferance for the uncivilized life
deism
teaches that God is seperate from creation
trancendentalism
teaches that God is resident in nature and man is known as the world spirit
untilitarianism
an ethical system in which actions are judged on the happyness they produce
soliloquy
self revelation overheard
the primary subject of the romantic poem
the poet himslef
the artistic pinnacle of romantic lituratrue
is poetry
meant for his poetry instrumental in reform and revolution
percy bysshe shelley
left his wife and eloped to france with a lady he married
shelley
died by drowning at sea during a storm
wshelley
england in 1819
inspired by the Peterloo massacre
not a rebel in lifestyle
john keats
trained was an apthecary, forsook medicine for poetry
john keats
he and his brother died of tuberculosis
john keats
on first looking into chapmans homer
a sonnet keat’s first indisputably great poem
intoduced transcendantalism to england
samuel taylor coleridge
as a result of his prose he is known as the father of the modern literary criticism
coleridge
responsible for the present view of shakespear
attributes the eloquence of the rurual people to the influence of the bible and the book of common prayer
rime of the ancient mariner’s verse form
ballad stanza
the albotross
welcomed by the sailors as a sign of good fortune