British Romanticism
5 poetas, 1770 – 1850
William Wordsworth
1770 – 1850
William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth on the River Derwent, in the heart of the Lake District. He was the second of five children. His father was the personal attorney of Sir James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale, the most powerful man in the area. His first…
Samuel T. Coleridge
1772 – 1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a major Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher. His writings on literature, religion and morals exerted a strong influence throughout the 19thc century. Much of his work was not written nor published, and much appeared posthumously. His criticism on…
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 – 1822
Shelley was born on August 4, 1972, at Field Place near Horsham in Sussex the oldest of 7 children, of whom the next 5 were girls. His father was a baronet and Whig Member of Parliament. After two years at the Syon Academy in London, at the age of 11, he was sent to Eton, where…
John Keats
1795 – 1821
John Keats, the youngest Romantic writer, died at the age of 25. He is the archetype of the Romantic poet. Most of his best work appeared in one year. His work is characterized by the pursuit of Beauty and awareness of death and decay: "for many a time/ I have been half in love…
Emily Brontë
1818 – 1848
Emily Brontë was the fourth of four daughters and a son. She was born on 30 July 1818 at 74 Market Street in Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire
