The English Romantics Blake: The artist, engraver, visionary The Lamb, The Tyger, London, Coleridge: Intelligent,

, opium addict who had dream visions, many incomplete works. Wrote Lyrical Ballads with Wordsworth. Suspension of Disbelief. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan Wordsworth: Early on, he lived in the rural countryside and was inspired by that, by children & the common man, and by simplicity; friends with Coleridge, composed most of Lyrical Ballads, emotion recollected in tranquility We are Seven, The World is Too Much With Us Byron: Limp, curls, beautiful! Loved animals. Friendly with Shelley, involved in political movements, was exiled to Greece where he died. She Walks in Beauty, Epitaph to a Dog, When We Two Parted Shelley: Radical, married Mary Wollstonecraft, died in a storm, ashes of heart kept. Ode to the West Wind, England in 1819 Keats: Orphaned, sickly, TB the family disease, Fanny Brawne When I Have Fears, Bright Star

Poetry Study Sheet

Romantic Period: 1800-1900 Characteristic Key Words: Nature [Transcendentalists], Wild/Irregular/Grotesque [Poe], Seeking the absolute/the ideal/transcending the actual [Symbolists], Interest in social causes, human rights and animal life [Bryon, Shelley], Beauty and love [Bryon, Keats], Sentimental melancholy [Keats] Types of Poetry: 1. Lyric = present tense poem that presents emotional feelings of the poet. 2. Ode = lyrical stanza, highly structured, praising, glorifying, or describing an event/individual/or nature both intellectually and emotionally. 3. Sonnet = 14 line verse poem. ETC.

American Transcendentalism: A literary and philosophical

movement, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition. Emerson: leader of movement; essayist/poet/lecturer; individualism/freedom/nature. Nature (essay, 1836) Thoreau: author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist,

naturalist, historian, leading transcendentalist. Walden (book, 1854) Whitman: Old Graybeard; greatest & most influential American poet; humanist & proponent of the naturalist revolution; New Yorker; gay & proponent of civil rights/liberties; a respected literary vanguard, even in his own time; highly influential. Song of Myself, O Captain, My Captain, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom

The French Symbolists: In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (1857)
by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into French, were a significant influence . The aesthetic was developed by Stphane Mallarm and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and '70s. In the 1880s, the aesthetic was articulated by a series of manifestos and attracted a generation of writers. -from Wikipedia Visionary*Transcendent*Dark Synesthesia: Mixing of senses to evoke imagery.

They sought to uncover absolute truths and describe them indirectly. Evoking not describingimagery. Vocabulary: Decadence, poet maudit, fin de sicle. Poets covered: Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud (the child genius)