Most Famous Writers in The Romantic Period in English Literature
Most Famous Writers in The Romantic Period in English Literature
1. William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
2. S.T Coleridge (1772–1834)
3. Lord Byron (1778–1824)
4. P.B. Shelley (1792–1822)
5. John Keats (1795–1821)
William Wordsworth
The poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, a remote town in the lowlands of northern England. He is known as “Poet of Nature,” “Worshiper of Nature,” “The Lake Poet.” The French Revolution inspired him. He became The Poet of Laureate in England.” In nature, the great Creator exists,” his belief is known as Pantheism William Wordsworth was the brightest star of the age of the Romantic Period.. This poet died in 1850.
His Well-known Works :
· Lyrical Ballads
· The Daffodils
· The Solitary Reaper
· The Excursion
· The Prelude
· The Recluse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772, the youngest of thirteen children of his parents. He was an extraordinary child who read the Bible and Arabian Nights before he was five. He was an influential writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher of the age of the Romantic Period. He was a founder of his friend William Wordsworth of the Romantic Movement in England. He was called “Opium Eater,” “The Poet of Super-naturalism.” This poet died in 1834.
His Well-known Works :
· Lyrical ballads
· The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
· Christabel
· Kubla Khan
· Dejection: An Ode
· The Nightingale
· Biographia Literaria
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron was a British poet and one of the leading figures in the Romantic movement. The poet was born in 1788 in London, the year preceding the French Revolution. He was called the Rebel poet in England. He was also an influential poet of the age of the Romantic Period. He published his first work “Hours of Idleness (Juvenilia)” at the age of 19 when he was reading Cambridge University. He fought on behalf of the Greeks in their Liberation War. This poet contracted fever at the age of 36 and died in 1824.
His Well-known Works :
· Don Juan
· Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
· She Walks in Beauty
· Hours of Idleness
· Heaven and Earth
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Percy Bysshe Shelly was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. The famous English poet was born in 1792 in Fieldplace, near Sussex, England. He was an Optimistic & Pessimistic poet. This great poet died in 1822 when he was caught in a storm while traveling by boat on the beach.
His Well-known Works :
· Ode to a Skylark
· Ode to the West Wind
· Adonais
· Queen Mab
· The Necessity Atheism
· A Defense of Poetry
· Prometheus Unbound
John Keats
John Keats was not only the last but also the most perfect of the Romanticists. He was most young among the Romantic poets. The famous poet of English literature was born in 1795 in Mubfields, London. He was called “Poet of Beauty” “Poet of Sensuousness.” He was most famous for his sense of beauty and professionally known as a man of medicine. This poet died at the age of 26 of Tuberculosis in 1821.
His Well-known Works :
· Ode to a Nightingale
· Ode to Psyche
· Odeon Melancholy
· Ode to Autumn
· Isabella
· Lamia
