LAP Lambert Academic Publishing The Big Six : A Brief Panorama of English Romantic Poets

The Romantic movement validated intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe – especially which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities: both new aesthetic categories. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets which is known as “Big Six”. In this group the poets are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older William Blake. In English Romantic Poetry, the above six great male poets are well appreciated. This book presents a brief panorama of the life & works of these six great poets.