Second Generation Poets
political issues
· He is best remembered for "Ode to the
West Wind" and "To a Skylark."
George Gordon Byron
(1788-1824)
· He was a Poet and a politician
· Byron was born in a house on Holles
Street in London.
· He was in many ways the prototype of the
romantic poet.
· He was heavily involved with
contemporary social issues .
· His romances and dramatic poems had a
delirious effect on the European public.
· Most popular poems were "Childe Harold
´s Pilgimage" and "Don Juan"
John Keats
(1795-1821)
· He was a Poet, a surgeon's apprentice and a
medical student
· He had serious health problems throughout his life.
· The main theme of his poetry is the conflict
between the real world suffering,death and decay
and the ideal world of beauty.
· Love was also important theme in his work
· He developed his own very distinctive
style.
· He is perhaps still the most widely read of
the romantic poets.
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