Lec 9

• The main stream of poetry in the eighteenth century had been orderly and polished.
• Heroic couplets were used for this verse, but various writers had broken away from the form and the thought.
• the signal of the beginning of the Romantic age was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• William Wordsworth was a poet of nature and had the special ability to throw a charm over ordinary things.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley struggled against the causes of human misery and against accepted religions.
• Who was so filled with the love of nature?

  William Wordsworth
• The mysterious surroundings of the silent ship are described in?

  Coleridge’s magic words
• One of William Wordsworth best sonnets are?

  Westminster Bridge
• Who was a greater poet, of good family, restless, and rich?

  Percy bysshe Shelley
• What was Percy bysshe Shelly famous poem?

  Ode to the west wind.