ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821).

Detailed explanation-2: -Time meant Shelley and Keats to be allied, poetic incarnations of the same second-generation British Romantic Zeitgeist. Born three years apart, Shelley in August 1792, Keats in October 1795, they died in consecutive years, Keats in February 1821 and Shelley in July 1822.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats is the greater member of the second generation of Romantic poets who blossomed early and died very young. He is Romantic in his relish for sensations, his feeling for the Middle Ages, his love for Greek civilisation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Third-generation Romantic poetry: Beddoes, Clare, Darley, Hemans, Landon (Chapter 29)-The Cambridge History of English Poetry.