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Romantic Poetry

Romantic Poetry. Medieval Vernacular Rebellion. Nature Mystical Bond. Key Features. Bad Things. Good Things. William Wordsworth. 1770-1850 English Romantic Movement Love of Nature Lake Country Lyrical Ballads. Themes and Style. Nature Children Poor Common People Ordinary Words.

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Romantic Poetry

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  1. RomanticPoetry

  2. Medieval Vernacular Rebellion Nature Mystical Bond Key Features

  3. Bad Things

  4. Good Things

  5. William Wordsworth • 1770-1850 • English Romantic Movement • Love of Nature • Lake Country • Lyrical Ballads

  6. Themes and Style • Nature • Children • Poor • Common People • Ordinary Words

  7. Samuel Coleridge • 1772-1834 • Small output but a large impact • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Kubla Khan, 1798

  8. Percy Bysshe Shelley • 1792-1822 • Life has the features of a Romantic Hero • Wit, satire, influence as a political and social thinker

  9. John Keats • 1795-1821 • Biography • “Posthumous life” • Odes – glory and tragedy of human existence

  10. Lord Byron • 1788-1824 • Biography review • Help to the Greeks & ideals of the Romantic Hero.

  11. Search For • Assonance – similarity in sound of vowels with different consonants • Stony and holy • Tone color – sounds like music • timbral • Lyric Poetry – poetry marked by individual emotion • Alliteration – repetition of initial sounds • Wild and wooly

  12. Romantic Literature & Poetry in America

  13. Transcendentalism • Group of New England intellectuals • Individualism • Self-reliance • Sympathy with nature • Reaction against Industrialism

  14. Ralph Waldo Emerson • 1803-1882 • Nature (1836) • Biography

  15. Henry David Thoreau • 1817-1862 • Complex man of many talents • Walden’s Pond • Civil Disobedience

  16. Walt Whitman • 1818-1892 • Leaves of Grass, 1855 • “thought rhythm” • Work interpreted on many levels

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