01/09: Romanticised Romantic Poets
Category: Romantic Poetry
Posted by: Admin
When I studied the Romantics in the mid seventies their work was not a popular genre - perhaps it still isn't - but their colourful characters were at least of passing interest. A recent episode of Lewis (the programme devised and inspired by Colin Dexter's Morse novels and their TV rendition) featured what the Detective Sergeant termed "the guys in the band" - Shelley, Byron, Coleridge et. al.
Of interest was the notion, professed by the Oxford Don who taught the Romantics, that these poet's had no earthly idea what their intention in writing their poetry was. They were merely searching for a "big time" fuelled for the most part by alcohol and various substances.
This stands in stark contrast to the numerous notes I still retain from Canterbury University English 1976 which analyse the Romantic view of nature and imagination.
Whose I wonder was the romanticism?
Of interest was the notion, professed by the Oxford Don who taught the Romantics, that these poet's had no earthly idea what their intention in writing their poetry was. They were merely searching for a "big time" fuelled for the most part by alcohol and various substances.
This stands in stark contrast to the numerous notes I still retain from Canterbury University English 1976 which analyse the Romantic view of nature and imagination.
Whose I wonder was the romanticism?
