"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reveals the power of the imaginative poetry. This poetry has the ability to create kingdoms and paradise. In this poem Coleridge is expressing heaven and hell through his own eyes just as the aplostles did in the "Bible" and Milton did in "Paradise Lost". The poem begins with a mythical tone‚ "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree." The poem does not give specifics to the construction of the palace. It just states that Khan decreed
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Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet‚ literary critic and philosopher who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan‚ as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work‚ especially on Shakespeare‚ was highly influential‚ and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases too. Samuel
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The imagination allowed poets to see beyond surface value‚ to create an external world of existence. It permitted them to see the truth beyond powers of reason and rationality. Samuel Taylor Coleridge in particular was a poet fascinated with the potential and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Coleridge placed considerable emphasis upon the imagination as a focal element within his poetry. He categorised the imagination into two key sectors; the primary imagination and secondary imagination
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"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about the creative powers of the poetic mind. Through the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. The poem changes to the 1st person narrative and the speaker then attempts to recreate a vision he saw. Through the description of the visions of Kubla Khan’s palace and the speaker’s visions the poem tells of the creation of an enchanting beautiful world as the result of
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These poems exhibit the influence of the formal way of poetry in England throughout the 18th century. Wordsworth had met Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ a fellow poet‚ and in 1797 Woodsworth moved to Alfoxden‚ Somersetshire‚ alongside his sister Dorthy. Their residence was near Coleridge’s home in Nether Stowey. This move created a sustained friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge‚ and they both worked on a volume of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads‚ which was published 1798. Lyrical Ballads is said to
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English poet of the Romantic school‚ one of the so-called "Lake Poets"‚ and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has been long eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Southey’s verse still enjoys some popularity. Southey was also a prolific letter writer‚ literary scholar‚ essay writer‚ historian and biographer. His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan‚ John Wesley‚ William Cowper‚
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Romantics favored more natural‚ emotional and personal artistic themes. The romantics of the era were painters‚ philosophers and poets. But the fame of this era lies with the poets. Such as Wordsworth and Coleridge‚ the renowned poets of this era. Other popular poets were Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ William Blake‚ John Keats‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron. Romanticism‚ according to these poets mainly was all about unabashed emotions. Wordsworth in his preface to the lyrical ballads defined romantic
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Chapter 19 The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism * Napolean Bonaparte (Napolean I) * Military and political leader; emperor * France * 1769-1821 * Established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sough to spread the ideas of the Revolution. Highly successful in the war. * Horatio Nelson * Flag officer in the Royal Navy * England * 1758-1805 * Notable for his inspirational leadership‚ superb grasp of strategy
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Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson Summary Samuel Johnson’s preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare has long been considered a classic document of English literary criticism. In it Johnson sets forth his editorial principles and gives an appreciative analysis of the “excellences” and “defects” of the work of the great Elizabethan dramatist. Many of his points have become fundamental tenets of modern criticism; others give greater insight into Johnson’s prejudices than into Shakespeare’s
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