Topic: A comparative Study of

Wordsworth and Coleridge as a

romantic poets.
Name: Patel Kinjal
Paper Name: The Romantic Literature
Paper No: 5
Roll No: 16
Submitted to: M.K. Bhavnagar
University
 Introduction

*Romanticism generally
speaking is the expression
*The poetry of this age was
marked by intense human
sympathy and a consequent
understanding of the human
heart.
 Liberty

Freedom
Romanticism
understanding
of

Intense human
Human heart sympathy
 New Turn to Poetry

*Wordsworth and Coleridge

*Great poets
*Joint efforts
*Romantic revival
*The meeting of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
*Nether stowey
*Momentous meeting
*They decided to transform
*Old currents of classicism
*They were unhappy
*Decorative language
18th century
*The first piece of work
*Myres humorously calls:
*Lyrical Blast
• Studied the simple objects of nature
• Coleridge to introduce
• Supernaturalism , mystery and magic in
poetry
• Wordsworth gave :

“Charm of novelty
to things of
everyday”
*Coleridge introduced the dream-like
quality
*Wordsworth presented
*The common
*Simple life of peasants and shepherds
*Coleridge went to the
*Medieval period
*Magic
*Mystery
• One special thing about them
• Loved and appreciated Nature
• Wordsworth visited Coleridge at Keswick
• Immortality ode Coleridge replied with ode
on Dejection.

“Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course,

With rocks, and stones, and trees”
• In certain respects it was who had a
better flowering.
• Coleridge soon came to an end.
• Wordsworth could not stop the decline in
Coleridge’s poetic power, but one can say that
their contribution to English was a landmark
for the Romance in English poetry.