Influences on Romantic Poets

The French Revolution is widely recognised as one of the most influential events of late 18th and early 19th century Europe, with far reaching consequences in political, cultural, social and literary arenas. The Revolution affected first and second generation Romantic poets in different ways.
First generation poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge initially sympathize with the philosophical and political principles of the revolution. Wordsworth famously chronicled his response to the war in his Prelude. His poem 'French Revolution' as it appeared to enthusiast at his commentment. The phrasing of the title indicates Wordsworth turned towards more conservative politics particularly after the turn of bloody politics. While Wordsworth found consolation in nature, Coleridge sort to berk his discontent with abstract philosophy and intellectual idealism.
Second generation Romantic poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Shelley held to the Revolution principles in a more idealistic if somewhat caustious way. Shelly for instance portrays rebellious events in his poems such as 'Prometheus Unbound and Hellas. Keats was entirely untouched by the French Revolution. Byron was a revolutionary in his own right. He was against almost all social conventions and institutions and felt an almost morbid pressure in violating and condemning them with the greatest abandon.
On the whole the Romantic poets did not like the way the Revolution turned out but they did praise the general statement it made, 'Beginning of the end' of the inescapable oppression of the lower classes by the monarchist rule, so despite the Revolution's problem the end result was a progression in favour of democracy and individualism, ideologically and in terms of socio-economic.


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