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1822–1888. Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1883) English poet and critic. Original Publication: People Disc - HB0331 (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Among the major Victorian writers, Matthew Arnold is unique in that his reputation rests equally upon his poetry and his poetry criticism. Only a quarter of his productive life was given to writing ...
Rainer Maria Rilke. 1875–1926. Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images. Widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke was unique in his efforts to expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery and in an aesthetic philosophy that rejected Christian ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: Poet Robert Burns is considered one of the most famous characters of Scotland's cultural history. He is best known as a pioneer of the Romantic movement. Industries
Feb 3, 2024 · Major Poets and Their Works. Although there were many poets — including a large number of women — that would fit the Romantic “framework,” the ones people generally consider to be most relevant are the "Big Six": William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.
Nov 14, 2019 · In the United States, meanwhile, Longfellow, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson helped to shape the course of nineteenth-century American poetry. Below, we introduce ten of the greatest and most representative poems of the nineteenth century written in English, whether in Britain or America. Percy Shelley, ‘ To a Skylark ’. Hail to thee, blithe ...
Wild Nights! ’. Wild nights – Wild nights! Were I with thee. Wild nights should be. Our luxury …. The energy and exultation with which Emily Dickinson opens this, one of her most passionately felt poems, encourages us to share the excitement and passion, or at least dares us to try to resist it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson—a New England preacher, essayist, lecturer, poet, and philosopher—was one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the 19th century in the United States. Emerson was also the first major American literary and intellectual figure to widely explore, write seriously about,…
