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In just a few years prior to his untimely death from tuberculosis, aged just 25, in 1821, Keats wrote some of the most memorable poems about everything from art to autumn to melancholy to sleep and much else in between. Keats is also one of the most quotable Romantic poets.
- Le Lac
- To Autumn
- Annabel Lee
- London
- Demain dès L’Aube
- Kubla Khan
- Ozymandias
- The Raven
- The Tyger
- Daffodils
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Lamartine is considered to be the first French romantic poet and Le Lac is his best known poem. The poem is an elegy forJulie Charles, the poet’s muse and the wife of the famous physician Jacques Charles. Lamartine had met Julie in 1816 on the shores of Lake Bourget in Savoie, France. The two were supposed to meet again in August the following year but she became ill with tuberculosis and subsequently died. Lamartine went to the lake alone visiting the places they that explored together the p...
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John Keats rose to fame after his death and by the end of the 19th century he became one of the most beloved English Romantic poets. He wroteTo Autumn after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. The poem marks the end of his poetic career as his efforts were not giving enough financial returns. In its three eleven line stanzas, To Autumn describes three aspects of the season: its fruitfulness, its labour and its ultimate decline. Widely analysed, the poem has been seen as signifying th...
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Edgar Allan Poe is the most famous American romantic poet and one of the most influential figures in English literature. This was his last complete poem and it was published in New York Tribune on 9th October 1849, two days after his death. The poem follows one of Poe’s recurrent themes — the death of a young, beautiful and dearly loved woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, believes that their love was so intense that angels became envious and caused her...
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William Blake is regarded as a highly influential figure in the history of poetry and his poetry collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience is considered one of the leading poetic works of the Romantic era. This poem consists of four quatrains in which the speaker describes the plight of London while he wanders through the city. He uses the term “chartered” for the city streets as well as for River Thames to indicate the oppressive and constraint atmosphere in the region. He sees despair...
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Victor Hugo was at the forefront of the romantic literary movement in France and he is regarded as one of the greatest French poets. Leopoldine Hugo, the eldest daughter of Victor, died in a boat accident with her husband while she was 3 months pregnant. She was only 19. Her death had a deep impact on her father and he wrote many poems expressing his loss, including this one. In the poem, the speaker expresses his love for a person telling her how he is unable to remain away from her. He is g...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge co-founded the Romantic Movement in England and he remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. “Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment” is his best known poem and is considered one of the most famous examples of Romanticism in English poetry. It is about a dream the poet had concerning Xanadu, the palace of Kublai Khan, the emperor of China and the grandson of the famous Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. There are various theories regarding the...
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Ozymandias was the Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, perhaps the most powerful king of Ancient Egypt. In Percy’s poem the speaker recalls meeting a traveller who tells him about two huge stone legs and a damaged head of a statue. The sculptor of the work had captured the pride of his subject. On the pedestal of the statue appear the words, “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” However around the ruin is nothing but “lone and level san...
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In January 1845, The Raven appeared in the New York Evening Mirror and becamean immediate popular sensation. It was soon reprinted, parodied and illustrated; and made Poe a household name. The poem tells the story of an unnamed lover who, while lamenting the death of his beloved Lenore, is visited by a talking raven. The raven enhances his distress with its constant repetition of the word “Nevermore”, slowly plunging him into madness. The poem makes use of a number of folk and mythological re...
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The Tyger is a poem in Blake’s Songs of Experience. It serves as a counterpart to his poem in Songs of Innocence, The Lamb. In The Tyger, the speaker focuses on the subject of creation asking who could have made such a terrifying beast as the tiger. The speaker talks about the fearful features of the tiger and wonders “did he who made the Lamb make thee?” before he ends the poem with the question with which he began, “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”. The Tyger, w...
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Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth is credited with launching the Romantic Age in English literature. He was Britain’s poet laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850 and he remains one of the best known poets in the English language. This poem is titled “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” but it is commonly known as “Daffodils”. Wordsworth was inspired to write it on encountering a long belt of Daffodils while taking a walk with his sister Dorothy in April 1802. The poem simpl...
Dec 2, 2023 · From William Shakespeare’s sonnets, John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee”, these romantic quotes by poets capture true love in its purest form.
Dec 6, 2017 · The best known English Romantic poets include Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and Shelley. In America, the most famous Romantic poet was Edgar Allan Poe ; while in France, Victor Marie Hugo was the leading figure of the movement.
The following poems, poets, articles, poem guides, and recordings offer introductory samples of the Romantic era. Included are the monumental Romantic poets often nicknamed “the Big Six”—the older generation of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge and the so-called Young Romantics—Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
A uniquely international anthology of romantic poetry spanning many languages and nations across Europe. Includes helpful notes with engaging headnotes for poets and a concise, accessible introduction to orient general readers in the history, context, and meanings of 'Romantic' poetry.
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Jun 20, 2024 · Perfect for readers who would like to enjoy the many riches of arguably poetry's greatest era, or for those already familiar with the poets but who would welcome some happy surprises, this varied international selection includes verse translated from six languages, with several poems appearing in the original language alongside its translation.
