The Transitional Period The Pre-Romantics William Collins William Blake Robert Burns Course Title: Poetry Course Code & NO.: LANE 447 Course Credit Hrs.: 3 weekly Level: 7 th Level Students Instructor: Dr. Noora Al-Malki Credits of images and online content are to their original owners.
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The Transitional PeriodThe Pre-Romantics
William Collins William BlakeRobert Burns
Course Title: Poetry Course Code & NO.: LANE 447Course Credit Hrs.: 3 weekly Level: 7th Level Students
Instructor: Dr. Noora Al-MalkiCredits of images and online content are to their original owners.
Pre-RomanticismThe Transitional Era
The term Pre-romantic “defines the sensibilities and spiritual states, trends, ideas and forms that developed at the end of the Neoclassical Period.”
The Pre romantics did not constitute a school of thought. They were a group of writers that were influenced by the new trends, feelings, of the end of the century.
William Collins was a pre-Romantic English poet whose lyrical odes adhered to Neoclassical forms but were Romantic in theme and feeling. Though his literary career was brief and his output slender, he is considered one of the finest English lyric poets of the 18th century.
Robert Burns 1759-1796 ScotWilliam Blake 1757-1827
Mad Poets
•Childhood visions (seeing God & Angeles)•14 poet + painter •Songs of Innocence, in 1789 •Songs of Experience in 1794•Rejected 18th neo-classical vision•Imagination is better than reason •Poetry should be understood by common people•Poverty
•Farm life (hard life)•Masonic •Loose life •Lyrics – Ballads of love- folk songs•spontaneity, directness and sincerity•Scottish life, poverty, and drinking•Manic depression "blue devilism". •Influenced the romantics, American writers, Russian authors (stamp)•Burns’ National Day