Authors such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Austin, Shelley, etc. Good luck and I hope my notes help!
Date Submitted: 01/01/2004 23:09:53
Romantic Literature Final
Lyrical Ballads:
The Eolian Harp by Coleridge (522-26)
Tensions: poetic inspiration (wind blowing through him, exotic, wild, unknown) vs. constraints (wife, domestic home life)
Coleridge is worried that this will be the last poem he writes, he feels he has lost his poetic inspiration.
Alliteration of sounds as if wind is blowing.
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Coleridge (545-57)
Similar to Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. Travels in memory with his friends in
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Hemans: Very intelligent, knew several languages. She and her husband separated so she had to support herself and 5 kids. She became tagged as unfeminine because she wrote and was too educated in literature for a woman and not enough in household skills. Dubbed as "domestic goddess" Ironic. She stepped outside her sphere. Was hated by Byron. She published under her own name. She was very popular and well liked. Poems about women's power and bravery.
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