Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats: notable poems, themes, and life facts, described in your own words.
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- Wordsworth's poem about discovering daffodils by a lake and solitary joy
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (also called Daffodils)- Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collection that introduced Romantic principles to English poetry
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Lyrical Ballads- What did Wordsworth call moments of childhood intensity that inspire adult creativity?
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Spots of time- Wordsworth claimed poetry originates from emotion recollected in what state?
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Tranquility- Wordsworth's autobiographical epic tracing his development from childhood to manhood
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The Prelude- The English region where Wordsworth settled and drew much of his poetic inspiration
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The Lake District- Wordsworth believed poetry should use the language of which group?
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Common people and rural folk, not aristocratic artifice- Wordsworth's belief that nature serves as what in human life?
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A spiritual teacher and guide to human truth and emotion- Coleridge's supernatural narrative poem about a cursed sailor forced to wander forever
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- Coleridge's unfinished Gothic poem featuring a mysterious woman and dark enchantment
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Christabel- Coleridge's fragmented poem describing an opulent pleasure palace in a dreamscape
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Kubla Khan- What addiction profoundly damaged Coleridge's health and creative output?
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Opium (typically taken as laudanum, opium dissolved in alcohol)- How did Coleridge define imagination as opposed to fancy?
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Imagination unifies and creates new wholes; fancy merely recombines existing images- What Gothic and supernatural themes dominate Coleridge's verse?
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Ghosts, curses, mysterious journeys, moral punishment, and the tormented conscience- Why did many of Coleridge's greatest works remain incomplete?
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Opium addiction, ill health, and loss of creative confidence interrupted his work
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