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