ROMANTIC AGE 1798 - 1824

-       It was a Revolt against classical school of thought.

-       Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats belong to this period.

-       Romanticism started with the publication of Lyrical Ballads – 1798, a book on the nature and scope of poetry by Wordsworth.

-       Unlike classicism Simplicity of style & diction became the order of the day.

-       They started to depend on Poetic imagination instead of fancy.

®    They used common Language in poetry – a language used by rustics.

®    They disliked artificial way of town life, talked about common and rustic people.

-       There was an inevitable role of imagination & emotion in romantic poetry.

-       It was the period of Political & social revolutions.

-       French revolution was also looming.

There was American war of independence; here Liberty of a nation from foreign domination represents Liberty of a poet from tyranny of literary rules said in Eighteen century.

Romantics Looked Pack to Elizabethan Masters like Shakespeare and Spencer for guidance.

-       Wordsworth wrote about events of everyday life and naturalism

-       Coleridge wrote about supernaturalism.

-       Early romantics had social harmony but later romanticism became a social conflict.

-       Romantics Preferred blank verse or stanza for poetic style

-       Elizabethan age can also be called as the first Romantic age in English literature, though there is a difference between both.

-       Romantics dealt with events of everyday life, insignificant aspects of nature.

-       They also believed in mysticism in the world.

®    They talked about desire than duty.

The talked about individual than society.