ENGLISH ROMANTICISM (1798-1824)

1. William Blake (1757-1827): Little known as a poet in his own lifetime, now considered the supreme Romantic poet. An outwardly conventional and quiet man, his radical motto was, "I must invent my own philosophical system or be a slave to another man's."

2. A painting of John Keats (1795-1821) by his friend Joseph Severn.

3. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) young and old.

6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

4. Robert Southey (1774-1843): "Lake School poet," friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, poet laureate.His radicalism culminates in his being named Tory poet laureate.

5. Percy Bysshe (pronounced "bish") Shelley (1792-1822): he, Keats, and Byron were the primary younger Romantics.

6. Lord Byron (1788-1824): a sketch of Byron in 1824.