Wordsworth and Coleridge as a romantic poet

Romantic Poetry and Poets . Wordsworth and Coleridge

1. Wordsworth and Coleridge as a romantic Poet Prepared by : Nidhi Dave M.A. Sem-1 Paper – 3-Literature of romantics Batch -2021/23 Submitted to- Department of English MKBU

2. William Wordsworth:- William Wordsworth ( 7 April- 1770- 23 April- 1850) a major English romantic poet, was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, a town outside the Lake district. His father was a lawyer, died when he was thirteen years old. So  the orphan was the orphan was taken in charge by some relatives, who sent him to school at Hawkshed in the beautiful lake region. He died in Rydal mount on April23,1850

3. S. T .Coleridge Coleridge was born in Devonshire in 1772. As a child he was unusually precocious. He was a poet, literary critic and a philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth , was a founder of the ROMANTIC  movement in ENGLAND  and a member of the LAKE POETS. His depiction of feelings if alienation and numbness helped to define more sharply the Romantics idealized contrast between the emptiness of the city where such feelings are experienced and the joys of nature.

4. S.T. Coleridge The real blossoming of Coleridge’s poetical genius was brief indeed, but the fruit of it was rich and wonderful. His first book was “Poems on Various Subjects” (1796), issued at Bristol. Then, in collaboration with Wordsworth he produced the ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (1798). This remarkable volume contains nineteen poems by Wordsworth and four by Coleridge, and of these four by far the most noteworthy is “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.

5. Wordsworth’s Definition of poetry:- “poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling, recollected in tranquility”

6. Language/ Diction of poetry ( style of poetry)

7. ·          What is a poet? He is a man speaking to men, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness. He has a greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive soul. His treatment of Nature:   His dealing with nature is his chief glory as a poet. Even the slightest of his poems have evidence of close observation. He says: To me the meanest flower that blow can give Thoughts that do often lie to deep for tears.

8. Subject matter

9. Poems Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The Solitary Reaper. London. Michael. Ode: Intimations of Immortality. Coleridge Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christabel Frost at Midnight.

10. Characteristics of Wordsworth’s poetry

11. Characteristics of Coleridge’s poetry

12. Conclusion

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