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Tag Archives: english romantic poet
Poem of the Week - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is perhaps the best known and most well-loved of all his 154 sonnets; it may be the most famous lyric poem in English. It is addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise, and the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate his virtues through children, and warns [...]
Poem of the Week - Asia: From Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. His major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life.
Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising [...]
Poem of the Week - Three Years She Grew
William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's masterpiece, The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years that was revised and expanded a number of times is considered by most critics to [...]
