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Facts About the Romantic Time Period
The Romantic era in literature starts In 1750. -
Facts About the Romantic Time Period
Romanticism saw a shift from faith in reason to faith in the senses, feelings, and imagination; a shift from interest in urban society to an interest in the rural and natural; a shift from public, impersonal poetry to subjective poetry; and from concern with the scientific and mundane to interest in the mysterious and infinite. Mainly they cared about the individual, intuition, and imagination. -
Facts About Other Romantic Authors
William Wordsworth is generally considered one of the greatest sonneteers. Writing over five hundred sonnets, he ushered the form back into widespread use and also revived the sonnet sequence. Wordsworth continued the work of Milton in freeing the sonnet's subject matter from the conventional and treated the sonnet as a subjective "verse essay" in which to explore his emotions. -
Facts About Other Romantic Authors
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan," as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. -
Facts About Other Romantic Authors
Lord Byron was another romantic writer. His poems were often very dark and about death because he had a very dark childhood. -
Facts About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley was the first child in his family, and was followed by five sisters, only four of whom survived infancy. Shelley enjoyed living in a house full of women, and became very close to his sister Elizabeth. He was disappointed when at the age of ten he was sent to attend school at Syon House Academy. -
Facts About Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the character of Percy Bysshe Shelley three qualities became early manifest, and may be regarded as innate: impressionableness or extreme susceptibility to external and internal impulses of feeling; a lively imagination or erratic fancy, blurring a sound estimate of solid facts; and a resolute repudiation of outer authority or the despotism of custom. -
Facts About Percy Bysshe Shelley
He was an atheist and wrote in his poems his religious views. Shelley attended Eton College. Shelley's views became very liberal, and he read the political writings of Thomas Paine and William Godwin. Shelley abandoned religion, became skeptical of the English monarchy, and described Eton as a "place of tyranny." -
Other Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley and another student, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, published a pamphlet of burlesque verse, "Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson." This pamphlet was about the views of atheims. They published this anonomously, but they were suspected of doing it and were expelled March 25, 1811 from Oxford. -
Other Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi. He voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi. During this time he was into dark and gothic things. -
Other Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley self-publishes the long poem Queen Mab. The poem is an allegory for Shelley's political ideals. -
Facts About Ozymandias
"Ozymandias" is a sonnet, a poem with fourteen lines. Shelley completed the poem in 1817 and published it in England's The Examiner in 1818. -
Facts About Ozymandias
It was one of Percy's most famous short poems. The central theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable decline of all leaders, and of the empires they build, however mighty in their own time. -
Facts About Ozymandias
Percy's most famous poem, "Ozymandia," was published. -
Facts About the Romantic Time Period
The Romantic era ends in 1870.