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ROMANTIC POETS

Romantic period is the most fruitful period in the history of English literature. This period of romantic poets starts in 1798, with the publication of the lyrical Ballads.

The Romantic Revival brought to literature a revival of the sense of the connection between the visible world and another world which is unseen. The essence of Romanticism was that literature, must reflect all that is spontaneous and unaffected in nature and in man. And it must be free to follow its own fancy in its own way.

The chief characteristic of the age is that it is emphatically an age of poetry. The glory period is in the poetry of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Moore and Southey.

Romantic Poetry, was the anti-thesis of classical poetry, and many complexities. The features most insistent in it are a subtle sense of mystery. Thus Coleridge and Scott worked on this intrinsic fears that lie behind human mind.

The second feature is an exuberant intellectual curiosity, and an instinct for the elemental simplicities of life. Wordsworth was a champion of simplicity.

The third aspect is the sensitiveness and accessi- bility to the influences of external nature which was the most pervasive, and the most important Wordsworth, Shelley Keats, and Byron all depicted nature in all its moods. Shelley floated high in the realms of nature, he was for the wilderness of the West Wind, and the eternal beauty of the cloud Byron found beauty in spring and roar of the ocean. Keat’s melancholy state of mind, found way in the description in the glooms and winding mossy paths of the forests.

Besides this nearly all the romantic poets were critics of one sort or another. They wrote formally in essays or prefaces, of the preface of Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads, Eassay as that of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Shelley’s Defence of Poetry.

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