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[Anonymous No.15246776]

Rank the English Romantics. For me it goes:

1. Keats
2. Coleridge
3. Blake
4. Wordsworth
5. Byron
6. Shelley

[Anonymous No.15246786]

>>15246776
Keats is trash. Never read the others but I'm sure they're trash too. Poetry is so garbage.

[Anonymous No.15246793]

>>15246776
1. Shelley
2. Keats
3. Blake
4. Byron
5. Wordsworth
6. Coleridge

[Anonymous No.15246796]

>>15246786
You have to be 18+ to post here.

[Anonymous No.15246814]

1. Wordsworth
2. Blake
3. Keats
4. Byron = Shelley
5. Coleridge

[Anonymous No.15246819]

>>15246776
Wordsworth was the most influential, but I personally like Coleridge the best.

[Anonymous No.15246829]

>>15246819
Coleridge is the least acconplish one, why do you like him?

[Anonymous No.15246841]

>>15246829
He didn't write as MANY poems but he has a fuckton of really good ones.

>Depression, An Ode
>Frost at Midnight
>Rime of the Ancient Mariner
>Kubla Khan

He's like one of those bands that broke up early but while they were together they had a huge number of hits.

Also his Shakespeare criticism is fun.

[Anonymous No.15246871]

>>15246776
Keats was the most brilliant minded and had crazy upside, but also died young so some of the appeal comes from the fact that he wrote amazing stuff by 25. His letters are amazing though.

Blake is a schizo-mystic and kind of hard to rank alongside the others, he is a romantic but also his own thing, deceptively simple in the first era of his writing and then incredibly complicated as time goes on

Shelley's prose is very underrated and he has many good poems, but in a lot of ways he's basically an extension of Keats with a slightly more humanist outlook

Byron is mostly remembered for his thotwrangling, but sometimes he surprises you with stuff like Childe Harold and Darkness.

Wordsworth, I never really liked as much as the others though he was Joyce's favorite romantic. To me he's like the British Whitman, lots of nature shit and loving humanity. I might be wrong about him tho.

Coleridge is the most literary of the group and the most fun in my opinion, he's kinda like Borges, he likes to be showy and almost metafictional. I guess I would say he's my favorite, but really i like them all except wordsworth.

[Anonymous No.15246888]

>>15246871
>Wordsworth, I never really liked as much as the others though he was Joyce's favorite romantic. To me he's like the British Whitman, lots of nature shit and loving humanity. I might be wrong about him tho.
It seems like Wordsworth is a "writer's writer". Borges, Bloom, Joyce, etc, all seemed to preferred him.

[Anonymous No.15246938]

>>15246776
Hume (don't be fooled)
Hamann
Herder
Coleridge
Blake
Burns

[Anonymous No.15247973]

bump

[Anonymous No.15248168]

>>15246776
1. Keats
2. Wordsworth
3. Blake
4. Colderidge
5. Shelley
6. Byron

Frankenstein is still pretty high up in my favourites.

[Anonymous No.15248292]

>>15246888
He's the only fully fledged poet of the bunch with the possible exception of Shelley who in phases was less poet and more critic in the sense of socio-political activist, which burnt him out and ultimately wounds him when his verse is compared to Wordsworth's, howsoever much similar literary activists like Marx, Shaw, Browning, and Gandhi have loved him. Keats was and remains brilliant but unfinished, Coleridge spotty but ultimately superior than all the rest in prose, especially in Biographia and The Friend. Byron was and remains a thing apart, whose contemporaneous celebrity (and moving both with and against the Romantic currents) has managed to keep him less generally known as a poet, which is a shame because I think he's underrated.
Like Whitman later Wordsworth's sole desire was to be the poetic voice of his people, and he succeeded in this more convincingly than the others who I believe fell short either because they were too critical (Byron and Shelley) or too overly concerned with craftsmanship (Coleridge as poet, and Keats).