ion, tendency to create its own universal world view (and in particular of history and literature), the idea of ??synthesis of arts and philosophy is considered to be among the most prominent features of ideology of Romanticism. Its effect on politics was considerable and complex; while for much of the peak Romantic period it was associated with liberalism lt; # justify gt; The writers tried to solve the problems, but we can not treat all the Romantics of England as belonging to the same literary school. William Blake (1757-1827) was bitterly disappointed by the downfall of the French Revolution. His young contemporaries, Samuel Coleridge (1772- 1834) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850), both were warm admirers of the French Revolution, both escaped from the evils of big cities and settled in the quietness of country life, in the purity of nature, among unsophisticated country-folk. Living in the Lake country of Northern England, they were known as the Lakists. The Late Romantics, George Byron (1788-1824), Percy Shelley (1792-1822), and John Keats (1795-1821), were young rebels and reflected the interests of the common people. That is why the Romantic Revival of the 18th - 19th centuries can be divided into three periods: the Early Romantics, the Lakists and the Later Romantics. In some poets this spirit of revolt and defiance resulted in a sort of titanism in an overstatement of passions. In others it led to the exaltation of the irrational and mystic aspects of life and a concern with the supernatural.
Some looked for solace in an idealized Hellenism inspired by a Greek ideal of beauty and by the concept of poetry for poetrys sake. Others romantic English poets found the escape from reality in the exotic and distant following the lead of the Gothic novels. This love for the strange, the exotic and the distant also informed the new interest in history and especially in the Middle Age lt; # justify gt; Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 into a wealthy Sussex family which eventually attained minor noble rank-the poet s grandfather, a wealthy businessman, received a baronetcy in 1806. Timothy Shelley, the poet s father, was a Member of Parliament and a country gentleman. The young Shelley entered Eton, a prestigious school for boys, at the age of twelve. While he was there, he discovered the works of a philosopher named William Godwin, which he consumed passionately and in which he became a fervent believer; the young man wholeheartedly embraced the ideals of liberty and equality espoused by the French Revolution, and devoted his considerable passion and persuasive power to convincing others of the rightness of his beliefs. Entering Oxford in 1 810, Shelley was expelled the following spring for his part in authoring a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism-atheism being an outrageous idea in religiously conservative nineteenth-century England. At the age of nineteen, Shelley eloped with Harriet Westbrook, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a tavern keeper, whom he married despite his inherent dislike for the tavern. Not long after, he made the personal acquaintance of William Godwin in London, and promptly fell in love with Godwin s daughter Mary Wollstonecraft, whom he was eventually able to marry, and who is now remembered primarily as the author of Frankenstein. In 1816, the Shelley s traveled to Switzerland to meet Lord Byron, the most famous, celebrated, and controversial poet of the era; the two men became close friends. After a time, they formed a circle of English expatriates in Pisa, traveling throughout Italy; during this time Shelley wrote most of his finest lyric poetry, including the immortal Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark. In 1822 Shelley drowned while sailing in a storm off the Italian coast. He was not yet thirty years old.
Shelley belongs to the younger generation of English Romantic poets, the generation that came to prominence while William Wordsworth lt; # justify gt; romantic poet stylistic analysis
CHAPTER 2. PECULIARITIES OF THE USE OF STYLISTIC DEVICES IN THE WORKS OF ROMANTIC POETS
2.1 Stylistic analysis of Lord Byron s works Destruction of Sennacherib, Prometheus, Darkness
The Destruction of Sennacherib is a poem by Lord Byron lt; # justify gt; The poem Prometheus was written in 1816. Byron had left England for the last time and settled in Switzerland, where he started a friendship with Percy Shelley and his wife, Mary Shelley. The influence of the Shelley s over Byron (and vice versa) is especially noticeable in this particular poem, and, as an evidence, we must mention both Percy Shelley s poem Prometheus unbound and Mary Shelley s novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Byron and the Shelley s shared a period of intense creativity together.he poem is about the figure of Prometheus, the famous titan who brought fire...
