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William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who helped launch the Romantic Age in English Literature along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by writing Lyrical Ballads in 1798. He was also a part of the Lake Poets -
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Walter Scott was one of the most prominent Scottish poets during the romanticism era. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet who was a co-founder of the English Romantic Movement along with his friend Wordsworth. He was also a part of the Lake Poets. -
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey was also an English romantic poet and a part of the Lake Poets. He was also declared the Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. -
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Conversation Poems
This is a group of eight poems that were written by Samuel Taylor Colerdige between 1795 and 1807. Each poem details a particular life experience of the poet. -
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Romanticism
The romanticism movement is said to have begun in 1798 with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads (a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) and it isaid to have ended with the death of Walter Scott in 1832. -
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Written by Walter Scott, it is a collection of Border ballads (Ballads collected from the Anglo-Scottish border). -
Dejection: An Ode
Dejection: An Ode is one of the conversation poems that were written by Coleridge.
This poem was dedicated to a Sara Hutchinson, to whom he declared love to even though she was not his wife. -
The Inchcape Rock
This is a ballad that was written by the Southey. It tells the story of a 14th century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath to install a warning bell on Inchcape. The bell was then stolen by a pirate who eventually perished on the reef while returning to Scotland. -
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
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Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
This book is the last, longest and greatest of prophetic books written and illustrated by William Blake.
The book tells the story of the fall of Albion. It does not have a linear plot as the characters morph in and out of each other and a character can be both a person and a place. -
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
The Lay of the Last Minstrel is a long narrative poem and is what made Walter Scott initially famous.
It talks about a sixteenth century border feud between two rivalling Scottish clans. -
Madoc
Another one of Southey's works. This poem is based on the legend of Madoc, who is a supposed Welsh prince, who sailed to America in the 12th century. -
Poems, in Two Volumes
This collection of poems, written by William Wordsworth, has been considered to be the peak of his popularity in the eyes of the public, even though it was porrly reviewed by his contemporaries. -
To William Wordsworth
To William Wordsworth is one of the eight Conversation Poems written by Coleridge. It was written as a response to Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude.
In the poem, Coleridge praises Wordsworth's poetic achievements and downplays his own. -
Poems, in Two Volumes
A collection of poetry by an English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. -
Marmion
This literary work was an epic poem written by Walter Scott and it talked about the Battle of Flodden that took place 3 centuries earlier. -
Guide to the Lakes
William Wordsworth's travellers' guidebook to England's Lake District. It was first published as anonymous text in a collection of engravings.
