Early Romantics

Thanks to the help of the students in ENG206: English Literature, Spring 2003, I am pleased to present a list of sites related to The Early Romantics. While I was tempted to hail this site "Links to Wordsworth," there is at least one site associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and one to the Early Romantics specifically. Each address (listed in no particular order) is accompanied by one (or more) reviews of the site. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me. This site may change, so check back.

This is a class page about the early romantics that states the goals of the course.

This site practically has everything about the guy you could possibly want to know. Discussions of his life, works, political history during his time, themes (his use of nature and the concept of how it exposes pain in human life), and his literary relations (sources, influences, analogues, and intertextuality). It also goes into detail on the poets involved in the Romantic period and Wordsworth's use of religious imagery in his poems. Genre and mode are included also. --Graham Kilburn

[*The site's organization has changed, so the information available may differ from that suggested below. CRE 11/05] The following site includes everything from Wordsworth's poetry to his connection to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The site also gives you background information on Wordsworth's life, from the loss of his mother and father, to his places of study, and his influential walking tour of Europe. The site also includes a listening booth, discussion forums, and other great literary links. --Brian E. Reguera

This is a complete 5-page summary of William Wordsworth's biography. It talks about his life, where he came from and where he went to school. It has links to some of his great works as well as some of his images. --Diana Molnar

This website talks about his life and gave some reasons why he wrote the way he did in his writings. --Terence Thomas

This is a site about Wordsworth's life, and it also contains links to his sister Dorothy and Coleridge, since they played such integral parts in his life. The end of the page is a list of his works. --Darbi Shannon

This web site has good background information of Wordsworth as well as links to some of his major works. This site has its sources listed as well as pictures of Wordsworth. --Stephanie Hill

This site gives an index to his poems and allows you to access each one to read. It also gives a decent bit of biographical information on him. Also included is a small portrait. --Tim Ewers

Here is a website on Wordsworth. It tells of his life and has some dates. --Lizette Martinez

This site gives some biography on Wordsworth. It mainly describes where he grew up and where he lived as well as the institutions he attended. --allegra bonini

This is my website on William Wordsworth. It mainly talks about his life, where he grew up, where he went to school, and where he is buried. It also has links to other sites and poems of his. --Chris Riccio

This website is just a short bio on the life of William Wordsworth. It discusses his and S. T. Coleridge's co-initiation of the English Romantic movement with their work, Lyrical Ballads. The article discusses his unique vision of "divine power and creative imagination." His poem, The Prelude, took him forty years to write and is considered his epic work. He dedicated his life to poetry and unfortunately wasn't fully appreciated during his lifetime. Nearing his death, the literary genre had moved in another direction, and like most geniuses, his fame came posthumously. --Brittany Hargrove

Here is a website contain most of the poems Wordsworth wrote all 900 of them. --Adam Vernon (watch out for pop-ups!)

This website shows how Wordsworth and Coleridge use nature in some of their work. I thought that this website was a little different and I liked how it focused on that one aspect. I thought it was relevant to Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" because looking ahead, some of that poem compares a wedding day to nature in lines 49 and 67-70. --Lauren Harvey

This website was very useful, not only when reading STC's poetry, but also when preparing for my presentation. The most helpful parts were the timeline of Coleridge's life, which also included events that happened in the world, which helps to maybe put some of his poetry in perspective. There was also a listing of many of the texts of his works, which helps greatly in looking at a large number of poems at once. Also on the website is a list of links to other websites with information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --Brianne Lyons