Valued: Youth and Innocence Nature, and man’s relationship to it Imagination over Reality Emotion over Reason

Responded to Change with Imagination Looked back to their innocent youth

with Nostalgia Often wrote of a dream world that was

more pastoral and innocent than the real world.

Some looked back to legend and myth for inspiration.

Found beauty in the small, ordinary things

One of the Fathers of Romanticism Wrote Lyrical Ballads with Samuel

Coleridge Once the Poet Laureate of England Used traditional forms like the sonnet

to express new feelings of romanticism Focused on the ability of nature to heal

the dreary mind and soul.

A Late Romantic poet Took his inspiration from the joy of

travel and the pain of a broken heart Byronic Hero – a dark, brooding

character, a “tortured soul” who eschews traditional values

Used traditional forms of stanza and meter to convey his themes of romance and yearning

Died young, only 36 yrs old

LORD BYRONLORD BYRON (George Gordon Byron)

Use the DIDLS and TP-CASTT charts to analyze one of the poems below:

By Wordsworth:1.“The World is Too Much with Us” p 8072. “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge”

p 8063. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” p 808By Byron:4. “She Walks in Beauty” p 8505. “When We Two Parted” p 852-3