19th & 20th c. Poetry

After ___ died in a drowning accident, his friends cremated him on the beach

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Contemporary critics called this poet a “working class Cockney poet”

John Keats

From childhood on, this poet lead a sequestered and obscure life

Emily Dickinson

Nature was almost a religion to

Wordsworth

The most popular Victorian poet

Alfred Tennyson

Died of tuberculosis at early age

John Keats

Wrote in Scottish dialect

Robert Burns

Irish poet of 20th c

William Butler Years

Burned all of his early poetry after converting to Roman Catholicism

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spent a year in France, hoping to witness the French Rev

William Wordsworth

Hot tempered poet of the people in youth; good gray poet in maturity

Walt Whitman

Wrote nearly 1800 poems, all but a very few were pubbed posthumously

Emily Dickinson

Heart buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Also a novelist

Thomas Hardy

Greatest of the Romantic poets

• Wordsworth = leading figure

• Keats = most perfect

Artist and visionary

William Blake

Involved in Irish Nationalism and mysticism

William Butler Yeats

Poetic experimentation and sprung rhythm

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Overshadowed by that of his wife

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Co authored Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wrote Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience

William Blake

“A shape with lion body and the head of a man, / A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, / Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it / Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds”

• Author: WB Yeats

• “The Second Coming”

• Theme: fragmentation and collapse of Western civilization in the wake of WWI

• Period: English

• Meter: Blank Verse

• Rhyme Scheme: none

“Again the guns disturbed the hour, / Roaring their readiness to avenge, / As far inland as Stourton Tower, / And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge”

• Author: Thomas Hardy

• “Channel Firing”

• Theme: Futility and persistence of human warfare; humanity doesn’t learn from its mistakes

• Period: English

• Meter: Iambic Tetrameter

• Rhyme Scheme: Alternate Rhyme

“altar, sword, pen, / Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, / Have forfeited their ancient English dower”

• Author: William Wordsworth

• “London, 1802”

• Theme: cry for moral and national renewal; spiritual and cultural decline of England - > be like Milton

• Period: Romantic

• Meter: Iambic Pentameter

• Rhyme Scheme: Petrarchan Sonnet"

“Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail”

• Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “Kubla Khan”

• Theme: power and danger of creative imagination; Mongol empire

• Period: Romantic

• Meter: Iambic tetrameter

• Rhyme Scheme: none

“And fare thee weel, my only luve, / And fare thee weel awhile! / And I will come again, my luve, Though it were ten thousand mile”

• Author: Robert Burns

• “A Red, Red Rose”

• Theme: pure expression of eternal love; speaker is parting from his beloved but their love will last forever

• Period: Pre Romantic

• Meter: Ballad meter (alt iambic tetra and trimeter)

• Rhyme Scheme: ABCB

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