Studied by 0 peopleBlake: TS Eliot
“an honesty against which the whole world conspires, because it is unpleasant. Blake’s poetry has the unpleasantness of great poetry.”
Blake: Nicholas Williams
“A war between the mental and corporeal themselves”
Wordsworth: Hazlitt
“The English literary equivalent of the French Revolution “
Wordsworth: Matthew Arnold
a Victorian poet and critic, described Wordsworth’s poetry to be as if “Nature herself took the pen out of his hand and wrote with a bare, sheer penetrating power” despite his disapproval of the Romantics’ approach to poetry.
Byron: MH Adams
“Byron’s poetry is marked by a sense of melancholy and a fascination with death, which reflects the Romantic preoccupation with the darker aspects of human existence.”
Byron: AC Bradley
”Byron’s poetry is characterized by a powerful and passionate imagination, a keen sense of irony and satire, and a deep understanding of human nature.”
Byron: Susan Wolfson
“rebellious and unconventional personality” is “evident in his exploration of the sublime.”
Shelley: MH Abrams
Shelley’s poetry reflects “the ideas more accurately than the particulars of the natural world.”
Shelley: William Harmon
“Shelley’s poetry is a key part of the Romantic movement, emphasizing the imagination and moral good.”
Shelley: Thomas Carlyle
“Like a ghost writing infinite wail into the night.”
Keats: Matthew Arnold
“He is a poet of the senses, and to the senses his poetry is a delight”
Keats: Blackwood Edinburgh Magazine
Considered his poetry to lack moral purpose
Keats: Kelvin Everest
“Strove to represent modes of experience outside history and time itself.”
The Sublime: MH Abrams
a complex of contradictory feelings: terror and awe, pleasure and dread.
The Sublime: Harold Bloom
“seeks to find the infinite within the finite, the eternal within the temporal, the transcendent within the immanent."
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