Romantic Poets

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

• Wordsworth was one of the most influential of England's Romantic
poets.
• William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District, in Cumberland.
His father was a lawyer. Both Wordsworth's parents died before he
was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different
relatives. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a
theme reflected in many of his poems. He was greatly influenced by
French Revolution in1789.
• While studying at Cambridge University, Wordsworth spent a
summer holiday on a walking tour in Switzerland and France. He
became an enthusiast for the ideals of the French Revolution. He
began to write poetry while he was at school, but none was
published until 1793.
• In 1799, after a visit to Germany with Coleridge, Wordsworth and
Dorothy settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District.
Coleridge lived nearby with his family. Wordsworth's most famous
poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' was written at Dove Cottage in
1804.
• In 1802, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson.
The next few years were personally difficult for Wordsworth. Two of
his children died, his brother was drowned at sea and Dorothy
suffered a mental breakdown.
• In 1842, he was given a government pension and the following year
became poet laureate. Wordsworth died in 1850 and was buried in
Grasmere churchyard. His great autobiographical poem, 'The
Prelude', which he had worked on since 1798, was published after his
death.
• John Keats (1795- 1821)
• he was another major poetic talent, and famous romantic poet.
• He is best known for his odes:
• Ode to a Nightingale (1820)
• Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)
• Ode to Melancholy
• Ode to Autumn
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772- 1834)
• He was close friend and associate of Wordsworth.
• Coleridge is best known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
published in Lyrical Ballads.
• Lord Byron (1788-1824
• Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and
personality captured the imagination of Europe. Although made
famous by the autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,
and his many love affairs—he is perhaps better known today for
the satiric realism of Don Juan (1819–24).
• Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822)
• is another great name of Romantic poetry. He is best known for
Prometheus.
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)
• Alfred Tennyson, was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate during
much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular
British poets. ... Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse
including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and "Tithonus".
• Robert Browning (1812-89)
• Robert Browning, (born in1812, London) major English poet of the
Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and
psychological portraiture. His most noted work was The Ring and the
Book (1868–69), the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books. In
addition to his other works: Men and Women, My last Duchess, and
Andrea del Sarto.