A Psychological Analysis Of Wordsworth And Coleridge, Two Prominent Romantic Poets

Abstract

Keats criticizes the artificial and arbitrary mechanical principles of writing. Any commitment to regularity is an imposition of external constraints on the poet. Poetry ought to take the reader beyond the confines of time and place and into a fantastical world. This is the main idea of the text above and the defining feature of the time period known as the Romantic era. The literary and philosophical movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century are together referred to as romanticism. While Immanuel Kant's definition of enlightenment in "What is Enlightenment? Romanticism introduced a different school of thought that placed an emphasis on subjective emotions (against reason and intellect), spontaneity (against order), and a radical skepticism with regard to the Enlightenment precepts. "is a process of man's liberation from bondage and oppression through the faculty of reason." William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, which were originally published in 1798, capture the intellectual energies of the time and are often seen as a critical manifesto of Romanticism. Poetry, according to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800), should represent genuine human emotions, use the "lower" kinds of diction and the "language of conversation," and come from the poet's imagination and sentiments. However, Coleridge differs from Wordsworth's description of the poet as “a man speaking to men” and poetry as “the real language of men” in Biographia Literaria (1817), proposing instead a critical examination of aesthetic experience.