Romantic Poets

"Canción del Pirata" by José Espronceda represents the Romantic period through its themes of rebellion, freedom, and disdain for societal constraints. The poem's pirate narrator embodies the Romantic...

The primary distinctions between early- and late-Romantic poets lie in their outlooks and themes. Early Romantics like Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge were generally optimistic, inspired by the...

The French Revolution initially inspired Romantic poets with its ideals of freedom and equality, influencing their embrace of "common language" and everyday life themes. However, as the Revolution...

The Romantic revival refers to a period from the late eighteenth century through 1832 in which poets, writers, and artists across Europe, but particularly in Germany and England, reacted against...

The term Romanticism is most often applied to the British poets of the late 1700s to the early 1800s, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Shelley, to name a...

Both Wordsworth and Keats find a redemptive and pure quality to nature.  Their poems extol nature as the one domain that remains free from social corruption and impurity.  There is a...

In the poems “London,” “London, 1802,” and “England in 1819,” Blake, Wordsworth, and Shelley paint grim portraits of England. While all three poems present the darkness and misery of their age, Blake...

While John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron are all Romantic poets, they each have characteristics in their poetry that differentiate them from each other. Coleridge's poetry is known...

According to the quote and the values of the romanticism movement, we can say romantic poets were held in extraordinarily high esteem due to their perceived position as a medium between nature and...

It's a very interesting and not really examined angle that you raise here.  There was a division between Wordsworth/ Coleridge and Byron/ Shelley, and to a lesser extent, Keats.  Part of...

Both Wordsworth and Coleridge allude to the supernatural in their poems "Odes: Intimations of Immortality" and "Kubla Khan." Wordsworth argues in his ode that our souls come to earth from heaven,...

The Romantic poets, in general, supported revolution, rejected Industrialization, and praised nature and the natural world—this was accompanied by the concern for the exploitation of women,...