Coleridges Poetry.

It is unclear whether his growing use of opium (and the brandy in which it was dissolved) was a symptom or a cause of his growing depression.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 25 July 1834) was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Coleridge wrote Lyrical ballad in 1798 with calibration William wordsworth. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His main points in his work of poetry are, (!) "Willing suspension of disbelief" is a formula for justifying the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literary works of fiction. (2) Coleridge is regarded as the greatest poet of the supernatural in English literature and The Ancient Mariner is regarded as a masterpiece of supernatural poetry. His supernatural is controlled by thought and study. Supernaturalism: Supernaturalism is something that is above and beyond what is natural; events which cannot be directly explained by known laws and observations. Imaginative and inventive fiction and poetry have been created upon this appeal. This element of supernaturalism is found in the three major works of Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel. The outstanding quality of Coleridges supernaturalism, however, is that his writings do not excite ones senses to a feverish pitch and do not remain remote from human reality. Coleridge was eater of opium. It is unclear whether his growing use of opium was a symptom or a cause of his growing depression.

William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. The source of Wordsworth's philosophical allegiances as articulated in The Prelude and in such shorter works as "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" has been the source of much critical debate. William Wordsworth was naturalist poet as he says man in nature and nature in man that is his views is man is the part of nature. The idea of pantheism stresses that there is a divine beauty imbued within the world and the spirit of oneness and "divinity" is within the world. The unity of both divine spirit and existing Wordsworths most important legacy, besides his lovely, timeless poems, is his launching of the Romantic era. William Wordsworth has great reverence for nature. For Wordsworth, nature had a spirit, a soul of its own, and to know is so is to experience nature with all the five senses. In his poems there are many references to seeing, hearing and feeling his surroundings. He speaks of mountains, woods, rivers and streams, and fields. Wordsworth realized, in each of us, there is a natural affinity for a certain setting for nature. His affinity towards nature is oriented to the sea. He knew the sprit, the soul and the feel of these places for he was able to experience these places in the fullness of youth Both of these poems by Wordsworth are poems of recollection and in these recollections, Wordsworth came across something that was truly immortal: Nature and its soul . Though change, death and destruction might be normal occurrences that come to nature, there is rebirth and continuity to life. As in death and destruction, human

endeavors are also mortal and temporary when compared to nature and its spirit. Nonetheless, though these things are only mortal, or temporary, they are still as much a part of it as much as water droplets individually make up a river.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4August 1792 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. Shelly was a revolutionaristic poet of England. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism combined with his strong disapproving voice made him an authoritative and muchdenigrated figure during his life. Four months after being expelled, the 19-year-old Shelley eloped to Scotland with the 16-year-old schoolgirl Harriet Westbrook to get married. When Harriet objected, however, English Romantic poet who rebelled to English politics and conservative values. Shelley was considered with his friend Lord Byron a pariah for his life style. He drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era. Like many poets of his day, Shelley employed mythological themes and figures from Greek poetry that gave an exalted tone for his visions. "The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" (from 'Ode to the West Wind', 1819)

John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic Keats first met Frances (Fanny) Brawne between September and November 1818. She shared her first name with both Keats's sister and mother, and had a talent for dress-making and languages as well as a natural theatrical bent.[45] During November 1818 she developed an intimacy with Keats, but it was shadowed by the illness of Tom Keats, whom John was nursing through this period. At the end she wrote a letter to his sister and rejected his love. Movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. Keats was interested in Sensual Beauty, and Hellenism. Keats was a romantic poet, full of intense passion and desire, yet shy and reserved. He was a young man with all the determination and melancholy of a teenager on a romantic quest to be among the English poets when he died. Negative capability is also another of Keats work. Means Negative Capability that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties. Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. In this sense, Negative Capability is a sublime expression of supreme empathy. Study of Chapman's Homer .The artist in Keats was half in love with Greek art.

Keats is every inch a Hellenist .In Grecian urn we find him dealing with the engraved pictures on the Urn .Greek ritual finds expression in the references of mysterious priest, heifer garlanded, and dressed in silken flanks, green altar .Again "attic", means Greek .Keats mentions the word,"Tempe, and with that word, we are transported to the eastern coast of northern Greece where Tempe is situated .Arcadia relates to a famous pastoral -sight in Greece.He is an inspiration to all of us, full of colorful language and imagination. He battled through tuberculosis and only lived to be 26. He wanted to be famous, and he has well and truly lived up to his dream. Keats longed to find beauty in what was often an ugly and terrible world English lyric poet, the archetype of the Romantic writer. While still in good health, Keats emphasized the importance of having knowledge of the surrounding world, instead of focusing on hermetic speculations. Keats felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension of material beauty, although his mature poems reveal his fascination with death and decay. Most of his best work appeared in one year.