6. Characteristics of romantic nature poetry and main representatives Characteristics of romantic nature poetry: · Genuine pleasure found in the natural world · Inspiration · Morality · Health (opposed to smoky industrial urban scenes) · Natural and pure: children and animals Some authors: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats, Burns, Southey, Cowper, and Thomson. Predecessors: Theocritus Greek pastoral poet, whose Idylls are set in Arcadia, Virgil, Horace, Spenser, Milton's The Garden of Eden from the Paradise Lost. Influences: 7. G.G. Byron major works: 1806 Hours of Idleness 1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 1813-1818 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage a partly autobiographical narrative poem that describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in
(Georgian/landscape park with Romantic/pleasure garden etc.) 3) Lord Tennyson and Victorian poetry · What was his main source of inspiration? He was inspired by romantic authors, especially Keats; another source was King Arthur and Arthurian Tales; (also inspired by nature many descriptions of nature, in many works discussed the role of man and woman in society; morbid themes/deaths etc.); · His works: Collection ,,Poems", ,,The Epic. Morte d'Arthur", ,,Idylls of a King", ,,The Holy Grail", ,,In Memoriam A.H.H" · Other important Victorian poets: Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins · Describe their works in general: Influenced by Romanticism, all the works had sth dramatic and "dark", escaping from the industrial ugliness into unspoilt beauty; poetry maintained sensuousness and imagination of the Romantic times; the great
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