English Romanticism - Liceo Quadri

The poets of the first generation were characterised by
the attempt to theorise about poetry. While planning the
Lyrical Ballads, they agreed that Wordsworth would
write on the beauty of nature and ordinary things with
the aim of making them interesting for the reader;
Coleridge, instead, should deal with visionary topics,
the supernatural, and mystery.
Individualism and escapism, as well as the alienation
of the artist from society, were stronger in the second
generation and found expression in the different attitudes
of Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Liceo Statale “Don G. Fogazzaro” 4