AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era. Over the course of their collaboration, the second edition followed suit in 1800.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, is often considered the beginning of the Romantic period because Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poetry marks a distinct change in form and subject matter from neoclassical poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the activities of his faculties and the depth and quickness of his feelings.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.