Romantic poet contextual quotes

Blake

* Metaphor in book

‘If the **doors of perception were cleansed**… everything would appear to man as it is, infinite’

Shelley

* Defense of poetry

‘Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it **marries exultation with horror**’

Wordsworth

* Preface

‘Poetry is a **spontaneous overflow**’

Byron

* Biographical

A ‘**bleeding heart**’ liberal

Keats

* A letter to a friend

‘What the **imagination** seizes as beauty **must be truth**’