Second Generation Poets
Second Generation Poets
· The poets of the second generation:
George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe
Shelley and john Keats.
· They lived through the dissillusionment of
the post-revolutionary period.
· The Britain they knew was highly fearful of
the possibility of revolution.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822)
· He was a Poet, a Dramatist, a Essayist and a
Novelist
· Shelley was born at Field Place in Broadbridge
Heath.
· The most revolutinary of the Romantic poets.
· He was an individualist and idealist
· His ideas were anarichic
· Many of his poems address social and
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 .
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