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Thomas de Quincey (essays, criticism, biography) Thomas Chatterton (poetry) Ebenezer Elliot (Poet Activist) William Hazlitt (criticism, essays) John Keats (poetry) Charles Lamb (poetry, essays) Mary Shelley (novels) Percy Bysshe Shelley (poetry) Robert Southey (poetry, biography) J. M. W. Turner (painting) William Wordsworth (poetry) Dorothy ...
Literature and Belief: English Institute Essays, 1957 (1957) editor ISBN 978-0-231-02278-1; A Glossary of Literary Terms (Geoffrey Harpham, 1957; 9th ed. 2009) ISBN 978-1-4130-3390-8; English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism (1960) ISBN 978-0-19-501946-9; The Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962) founding editor, many later ...
The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
As M. H. Abrams put it, “If he was a poet who mocked at poets from a Utilitarian frame of satirical reference, he was a Utilitarian who turned into ridicule the belief in utility and the march of intellect”. [3] Nevertheless, while humorous, Peacock's essay also raised several serious critical points. [4]
The writer John Cowper Powys, an admirer, wrote that, "with the possible exception of Merope, Matthew Arnold's poetry is arresting from cover to cover—[he] is the great amateur of English poetry [he] always has the air of an ironic and urbane scholar chatting freely, perhaps a little indiscreetly, with his not very respectful pupils."
Shelley’s argument for poetry is an important text of English Romanticism. In 1858, William Stigant, a poet, essayist, and translator, wrote in his essay "Sir Philip Sidney" [ 7 ] that Shelley's "beautifully written Defence of Poetry " is a work which "analyses the very inner essence of poetry and the reason of its existence, – its ...
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.