English Romanticism and literature

English Romanticism

Role of imagination, used to explore the unseen

Role of nature

Inspiration and comfort

Poetic style

New, individual language

Intense emotion, closer to the everyday speech

Syntax became simple

Blake

Born in London in 1757

He was employed by an engraver and he became an artist with engraving and painting

He wrote about symblos of innocence like the children and the nature

He published: Song of innocence in 1879 and Song of experience in 1974

Wordsworth

His main themes were nature and children

He found his ispiration in nature

The men and the nature are inseparable

Componiments

Daffodils/ I wondered lonely as a cloud

Coleridge

Moved by Germany and London in 1834

Friendship with Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads

The Rime of the ancient mariner