Blake is therefore frequently seen as a mystic, but this is not totally accurate. He deliberately wrote in the style of the Hebrew prophets and apocalyptic writers and envisioned his works as expressions of prophecy, following in the footsteps of Elijah and Milton. To be absolutely precise, he ...
William Blake, one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic era, wrote The Fly in 1794. This poem is a perfect example of Blake's unique style of poetry, which is characterized by its simplicity and depth of meaning. The Fly is a short poem that explores the themes of life and de...
Romanticism inEnglish literaturebegan in the 1790s with the publication of theLyrical BalladsofWilliam WordsworthandSamuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth’s “Preface” to the second edition (1800) ofLyrical Ballads, in which he described poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” becam...
During this time, William Wordsworth finished The Prelude and proceeded to read it to Coleridge. In response, Coleridge wrote To William Wordsworth, in January 1807, to capture his positive feelings about his friend's poem. 展开 DOI: 10.1057/9780230501904 年份: 2010 ...
poetry involves first-person speakers, and much appears to be autobiographical or confessional. Yet Wordsworth also frequently achieved a generalized lyricism in which the speaker is really ourselves the readers, or all humanity, rather than some dramatized version of the person who wrote the poetry....
British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England.WilliamWordsworthstarted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚Wordsworthfocused on ...
Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.[2][3][4] In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other ...
A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, th...
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Golding graduated in 1934, and published a collection of poetry that year,Poems. After graduation, Golding took a teaching job at Maidstone Grammar School in 1938, where he remained until 1945. He took a new position at Bishop Wordsworth’s School that year, where he remained until 1962. ...