Wpisz streszczenie w tym miejscu.William Blake spent most of his life in London. He was born in 1757. He started writing
poems at the age of twelve. However one of the poems “How sweet I roam’d from Field to Field” was written before the age of twelve. His first set of poems Poetical Sketches
published in 1783 proved to be very popular among his friends and initiated the Romantic era. Flaxman, one of his friends sponsored the first collection. The themes of these simple poems are mainly love, nature and joy of the innocent life. In 1789 William Blake published Songs of Experience. In the same year, Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul were released. Many of these poems focus on the children education, society of the eighteen century London, nature and most importantly restrictions of the church and state which were put on the rights of the children. Moreover, the restrictions bind not only the child, but also distorted the nature itself. Songs of Experience describe harsh reality of the adult society in which child seems to be lost in a world full of hate and corruption. In 1790 he composed The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake was a prophet of his age and in 1793 published his first ‘prophetic book’ Visions of the daughters of Albion. In the subsequent years he released The Book of Urizen and the Song of Loss. Then, he released his greatest poem Jerusalem. In this piece of work Blake was more than ever against the Industrial Revolution in England.William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in 1795, Cumberland. He was regarded as one of the ‘Lake Poets’. His greatest work of art was the Lyrical Ballads. It was published in 1798, shortly after he met Coleridge. The most important part of the Lyrical Ballads and the key to understand the poetry of Romantic Movement is enclosed in the Preface. Meanwhile, he started working on philosophical poem The Recluse which had been completed in 1805. When sister Dorothy and William returned from Germany they moved to their new home in Grassmere, the most inspirational place they have visited. Wordsworth became highly popular after releasing Descriptive Sketches and Poems in Two Volumes (1807). He was popular among all the critics of his time. Moreover, he was praised by the later critics and poets. For example, Matthew Arnold, one of the greatest, states that Wordsworth “nature herself took the pen out of his hand and wrote with a bare, sheer penetrating power” (1961:43). In 1810 Wordsworth published his first work written in prose A Guide through the District of the Lakes. Finally, in 1814 he released The Excursion, the second part of The Recluse.
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