"Today the word ‘romantic’ evokes images of love and sentimentality, but the term ‘Romanticism’ has a much wider meaning. It covers a range of developments in art, literature, music and philosophy, spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The ‘Romantics’ would not have used the term themselves: the label was applied retrospectively, from around the middle of the 19th century." The British Library webpage: http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-romantics
Each group will produce a 'Firefly' page on their chosen poet. This needs to include a biographical section and an analysis of either one or two poems. Each group needs to include at least one photograph/image, an annotated example of a poem and a written biography. These will then be uploaded under the headings below to be used as a resource for other students.
The work needs to be in your own words. If you find a good description, use it as a quotation and reference your source.
Resources:
www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zh8wxnb
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821)