Coleridge Wordsworth Blake

Content Supernatural Things from ordinary

characters. life.
Aim To give them a To give these Explored the timeless
semblance of truth. ordinary struggle between the role
things the charm of of law and reason and the
novelty. powers of love and
imagination.
Style Archaic language rich in The language of uses complex symbolism.
sound devices. common men However, his language and
purified by the poet. syntax are simple. He Child:
often adopts an innocence
apparently naïve style,
using a plain, Anglo-Saxon Father:
vocabulary, as well as experience
repetitions, refrains and
regular stress patterns Christ:
which are typical of higher
ballads, children’s songs innocence
and hymns.
Main interest The creative power Relationship He was also an artist:
of imagination. between man and - Studied the works of
nature. Raphael and Michelangelo
imagination as a - Studied the monuments
means of in the old churches of
knowledge. London, particularly
Westminster Abbey.
- studied at the Royal
Academy of Art.

Main works 1798: The Rime of the Lyrical Ballads (1798); Songs of Innocence (1789)
Ancient Mariner, the → The Lamb→ Theme:
first poem of the Lyrical Ballads (2nd innocence and the
collection Lyrical Ballads; edition, 1800); this creation. → Key images:
edition contains the the Lamb, the child, Christ.
1816: Christabel, an famous ‘Preface’, the
unfinished narrative Manifesto of English Songs of Experience (1794)
poem; Romanticism; → London → Theme: the
causes of man’s lack of
1816: the dreamlike Poems, in Two freedom. → Key images:
poem Kubla Khan, Volumes (1807); three victims: the
composed under the chimney-sweeper, the
influence of opium; The Prelude (1805); soldier and the prostitute.
→ The Tyger→ Theme: The
1817: Biographia The Excursion (1814). power of creation
Literaria, a classic text of → Reference to myth:
literary criticism and Icarus and Prometheus.
autobiography.