ROMANTIC POETS AND POETRY  Presenter: Musharaf Hussain  Submitted to: Ma’m Khishar  Class: M.A. (Literature & linguistic)  Paper: History of English Literature  Department of English  Riphah International University Faisalabad 

ROMANTIC POETRY  Not just about love  Written in Romantic Epoch

ROMANTIC POETS  William Wordsworth ( )  Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( )  John Keats ( )  Percy Bysshe Shelley ( )  William Blake ( )  George Gordon ( )

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 Deals with nature as a tool  Escapist  Sensual imagery  Yearned for doing something big  Romantic dreamer  Depression  Love for beauty  Pessimism  Horror  Supernatural Elements

. “The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing!” “I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever-dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.” (solitude, pessimism, horror, nature as a tool) “I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful, a fairy’s child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.” (Idealised woman, supernatural, love for beauty) “She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna-dew, And sure in language strange she said— ‘I love thee true’.” (supernatural elements, incomplete love story) “And there she wept and sighed full sore, And there I shut her wild, wild eyes With kisses four.” (sensual imagery) “I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!’” (horror, depression) “And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side.” (escapism, romantic dreamer) “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that Is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” “A thing of beauty joy foreve Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness”

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