Coleridge was born in Devonshire in 1772. He was deeply influenced by the high ideas of French revolution ,but after the disillusionment he and the poet Southey planned to established a Utopian Community in Pennsylvania under the name of Pantisocracy ,but the project came to nothing ,In 1797,he met Wordsworth and settled in Somerset. Then he wrote - "The Rime of Ancient mariner" ," Christabel" ," Kubla khan"(unfinished). He died in 1834.
Features of Romanticism:- 1. The Romantic movement was marked by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule and custom. 2. Romanticism is return to nature and plain humanity. 3. It brought again the dream of agoldena age . In which stern reality of life were forgotten and the ideals of youth were established . As the only permanent realities. 4. The Romantic movement was the expression of the individual genius rather than of established rules. Influenced the literature of the revival is as varied as the characters and modes of different writings. 5. The Romantic movement while it followed its own genious was not altogether unguided . Strictly speaking their is no new movement either in history or in literature,is grows out of some good thing . And looks back with reverence to the past masters.
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