Who helped launch the Romantic movement?

Who helped launch the Romantic movement?

• A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• B. John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley
• C. Lord Byron and William Blake
• D. T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

Answer: (A)

Romanticism in English literature begins with a shift toward imagination, emotion, and a close relationship with nature, breaking away from strict classical rules. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped launch this movement through their collaboration on Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798. They promoted using simple, everyday language and writing about ordinary people's experiences, arguing that poetry should arise from real feelings rather than ornate form. This approach, along with Wordsworth’s idea that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions expressed in speech as people actually talk, set the template for Romantic poetry and inspired many writers to explore nature, memory, and the inner life of the creator. Later Romantics like Keats and Shelley continued the movement, while Byron contributed strongly as well; Blake is often seen as a precursor who helped shape its themes. Eliot and Pound belong to modernism, not Romanticism.

Romanticism in English literature begins with a shift toward imagination, emotion, and a close relationship with nature, breaking away from strict classical rules. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped launch this movement through their collaboration on Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798. They promoted using simple, everyday language and writing about ordinary people's experiences, arguing that poetry should arise from real feelings rather than ornate form. This approach, along with Wordsworth’s idea that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions expressed in speech as people actually talk, set the template for Romantic poetry and inspired many writers to explore nature, memory, and the inner life of the creator. Later Romantics like Keats and Shelley continued the movement, while Byron contributed strongly as well; Blake is often seen as a precursor who helped shape its themes. Eliot and Pound belong to modernism, not Romanticism.