1. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, Shelley British Romantic Poets

2. Characteristics of Romantic Poetry Pantheistic principals: Revering the Universe Caring for Nature Celebrating life Strong emotion Imagination Freedom from classical correctness Rebellion against social conventions

3. William Wordsworth Collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1770-1850) Parents died before he was 13 Fixated on his sister, Dorothy French Revolution, fathered a daughter, deserted child and her mother With Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, which included his Tintern Abbey and STC's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Marked real beginning of English Romanticism

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth Was A Good Influence (1772-1834) Vicar's son educated at Cambridge. Early devotion to Pantisocracy-- a kind of utopian communalism. Popularized German thought in England. Wrote his best poems in his early friendship with Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads) Unhappy marriage Hopelessly in love with Wordsworth's sister in law. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

5. William Blake Engraver With Vision(s) (1757-1827) Engraved and published Songs of Innocence (1789) and the darker Songs of Experience (1794). Major prose work is the Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) Strange prophetic works and engravings Rebellion against tyrants and oppressive codes. Tyger, Tyger

6. John Keats Here Lies One Whose Name Was Writ In Water (1795-1821) Five-feet tall, handsome medical student Shelley helped him publish his Poems (1817), a failure. In 1818 he nursed his brother who was dying of TB, which had killed his mother when he was 8 Keats died of TB in 1821. Known for the Spencerian sonnets. Eve of St. Agnes Ode on a Grecian Urn

7. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Wild father died when he was 3. Relationship with governess. Early lyrics published as Hours of Idleness (1807) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Famous love affairs, marriage, divorce, relationship with his sister, Augusta. Unsavory rumors. Shunned by society as an immoral degenerate, fled Europe making good friends with Shelley.

8. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Kicked out of school for The Necessity of Atheism. Eloped at 19 with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook He deserted Harriet and their daughter and soon-to-be second daughter for 17-year-old Mary Godwin. Met and made friends with George Gordon, Lord Byron. Harriet drowned herself and he married Mary. Refused custody of his two daughters by Harriet. He went into exile in 1818 and drowned in Italy. Ozyamandius