Do you know these English Romantic authors?

Question

William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

...if so, what would you say their role/task in society was?

I'm studying for an essay and would simply like some ideas, nothing long or detailed. Thank you!

Answer 1

even shekhsphere was a romantic author

Answer 2

They reflected the thinking of their time in their own different ways. Wordsworth was a bit mushy, PB Shelley was a troubled soul, and it shows. Keats and Coleridge were both quite dark, and Blake was quite political.

Answer 3

They were Poets and Authors from the Romantic period, revolutionary, in the Victorian time,
Percy Bysshe Shelley was married to Mary Shelly (the author of Frankenstien) and Best Mates with Byron. They went to Geneva and chilled out having writing contests which Mary won in her creation of Frankenstien!!
Also Mary Shelleys mother was the revlutionary Mary Wollstencroft!!
I studied them 2 years ago at As level. Just type their name in to google!
They produced a romanticised image of life, pastoral.

Answer 4

the first thing to say is that they are not really authors in the novel sense of the word, it's a lot more accurate to call them poets. as romantic poets they shared an ideal which was to find beauty and the sublime in nature and describe it in verse, wordsworth in particular liked the scenery inn the lake district. it was also a reaction against reason (enlightenment) an appreciation of beauty for beautys sake, a celebration of the senses and of imagination and at times almost magic and certanly mystery. it was a very free sprited movement coming after turbulent periods of revolution and war in the late 18th early/ 19th century. id strongly recommend "preface to lyrical ballads" by wordsworth as a primary text.

Answer 5

I thought they were Poets I love the one by William Wordsworth the Daffodils it's my favourite poem the words are so lovely maybe they did wright as well only I only know them as poets I think Keats is buried in Ireland and think Blake wrote Tiger Tiger check it out as it is sometime since I was at school

Answer 6

I remember doing an essay on William Blake in English Literature at College.

He wrote a poems on copper plates - called 'Songs of Innocents and Songs of Experience' (though you probably already knew that)

I remember however, that to analyse his poems properly you had to look at the Romantic, Religious and Political views of the Poem > so the poems are very contradictory and have multiple meaning.

Blake himself was a bit of a loon. He said he spoke to angels in trees and he and his wife went to dinner parties naked to be rebellious against social norms.

He hated the industrial revolution too.

That's loads sorry! Hope it Helps xx

Answer 7

Go to Spark notes on the web for a few ideas.Not to plunder any answers...just to get you started

Answer 8

Romantics pushed individualism, spirituality, beauty, and reacted against rationalism.