Blake,Wordswort & Coleridge

William Blake William Blake Vision and imagination: he was called the visionary poet, he stressed the importance of imagination as an instrument of knowledge. Philosophy: he found necessary to create a philosophy of his own, with the exaltation of the spirit over the body. Innocence and experience: they are two faces of the human soul. Freedom: he rebelled against any form of oppression and slavery, either social, political or religious. Childhood: It is not only an age, but also a state of the soul, a childlike view of life, which may persist in maturity too. Language: simple and lyrical in the songs and more difficult in the prophetic books. Works: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, “Milton”, “French Revolution, a Prophecy”. William Wordsworth Subject of poetry: Incidents and situation from common life. Language: a selection of language really used by men. Poetry: it is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity = Memory. Imagination: the capacity of colouring, to modify the object observed. Childhood: the most important stage of man's life , in which we have visionary faculty. The child became the father of the man. Nature: he was the poet of the relationship between Man and Nature; they were different but inseparable parts of the whole universe. He had a Pantheistic vision of nature. Nature was a friends and a comforter to man, the mission of the poet is to open men's souls to the inner reality of nature. Works: “Lyrical Ballads”, “Poems in Two Volumes”, “The Prelude”. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Different types of works: translations from German, essays on philosophy, religion and politics. Imagination: Primary Imagination: is the living power and prime agent of human perception, it is the faculty by which we perceive the world around us. It is common to all human beings. Secondary Imagination: it is the poetic vision, the faculty that a poet has to idealize and unify. Contrast with Fancy that is inferior to it, it is only a mode of Memory, without the power to create. Nature: he did not believe in a Pantheistic vision of nature because of his Christian faith, he saw it in a sort of neo-platonic interpretation, as the reflection of the perfect world of ideas. Language: different from that used by Wordsworth, more archaic in the ballad, full of sound patterns in “Kubla Khan”. Works: “Daemonic Group” composed by: “Christabel”, “Kubla Khan” and “The rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”. “Conversation Poems” composed by: “The Nightingale”, “The Eolian Harp” and “Dejection: an Ode”. “Biographia Literaria” in Prose. Continua »