Romantic Poetry

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Romantic Poetry

• Wordsworth and the film Pandemonium

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The Big Six

• William Blake (1757-1827)
• Willliam Wordsworth(1770-1850)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• John Keats (1795-1821)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
• Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Mary Shelley (1797 1851)
Jane Austen 1775-1817
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Romantic Age

• First Generation The emphasis on
• Nature and correspondence between Nature and
  human nature (e.g. US Whitman, Dickinson)
• Feeling (spontaneous overflow of powerful
  feeling emotion recollected in tranquility)
• Imagination (e.g. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)
  Vision
• Common people (London)
• Individualism, Idealism Quest (Tiger vs.
  Rose)

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

• See Dorothys journal here http//en.wikipedia.or
  g/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
• How is the speaker and the daffodils set in
  contrast? Is the poem all set in past tense?

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I wandered lonely as a cloud

• I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high
  o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a
  crowd,A host, of golden daffodilsBeside the
  lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing
  in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that
  shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They
  stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin
  of a bayTen thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing
  their heads in sprightly dance.

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

• The waves beside them danced but theyOut-did
  the sparkling waves in gleeA poet could not but
  be gay,In such a jocund companyI gazed---and
  gazed---but little thoughtWhat wealth the show
  to me had broughtFor oft, when on my couch I
  lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon
  that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of
  solitudeAnd then my heart with pleasure
  fills,And dances with the daffodils.

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W. Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Revolution
• Frost at Midnight and meeting Mary Wordsworth
• Creation
• Opium and Ancient mariner
• Tinturn Abbey, the publication of Lyrical Ballads
  and Kubla Khan
• 2nd volume of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridges return
  to find Dorothy addicted ? ending
• Daffodil and The Ancient Mariner