Abstract
This paper argues it is probably unavoidable perceiving the works of Shelley and Keats without putting these works in the context of the age and in the context of Romanticism. On the whole the selected pieces of prose and verse of the poets represent their postulations in an era which witnessed great revolutions, political and industrial bringing about new trends in literature and in society. From the personal perspective of the two poets, the birds in the poems represent ideals reflecting the treatment of imagination, nature and ideology of their time and their individual experience, knowledge of the world and of prosody. Thus the treatment of this topic as such opens an old and new interpretation of the poets’ work since the topics in their poetry can apply to their age and ours.
Highlights
Stephen Prickett in his introduction to The Context of English Literature: The Romantics, defines Romanticism as “characterizing a distinctive age, or even a movement
This paper argues it is probably unavoidable perceiving the works of Shelley and Keats without putting these works in the context of the age and in the context of Romanticism
To Sum up, Romanticism in context has been a criterion to interpret the poetry of the Romantics as a whole and the visual images in Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley’s Skylark in particular
Summary
Stephen Prickett in his introduction to The Context of English Literature: The Romantics, defines Romanticism as “characterizing a distinctive age, or even a movement. According to Seamus Perry in “Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept” (1999) the “Romantics did not know that was what they were.” It was the business of the critics of our age,who have categorized the romantics into lake School’ (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey), the ‘Demonic School’ (most notoriously, Byron), the ‘Cockney School’ (Leigh Hunt and Keats)”(2). These aspects above mentioned are the criteria upon which Romanticism and the romantics must be taken into consideration to study any work of the romantics. They provide plausible interpretation for critics of the romantics in any age in accordance with new literary that appears in every age: Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism, etc. these interpretation will add to the canonical poets of Romanticism
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