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A 5 page paper which examines which of these two poets from the Romantic era wrote the most accurate and useful manifesto, and which wrote the least accurate or useful. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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defines the term as "documents giving aesthetic and artistic precepts, programs to indicate the more general and wideranging declarations, visions, or overviews" (Quoted in Vondeling 127). But poetic manifestos
were around long before T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg. The roots can be traced back to the late eighteenth-century, when English poetry was in full-flower. There were several
notable poets during this period and the early nineteenth century, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. Coleridge was an accomplished poet, as evidenced
in such works at "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Blake had carved out a niche for himself by dabbling in mysticism in such evocative works as "The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell." He also resurrected what had been by that time considered to be the dormant genre of gothic to his prophetic verses. While Coleridge often
languished in his friend Wordsworths long shadow, Blake opted for a more individualistic approach to his poetic art. In "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," Blake boldly satirized Christian
morality, which employed the use of irony in the tradition of Jonathan "Gullivers Travels" Swift, although the complexity of his verses often confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from
them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake offered the greatest insights into the poetic position. During his brief life, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a
celebrated poet, often mentioned with the likes of Byron and Wordsworth, who was a one-time mentor before a permanent ideological estrangement. He certainly contributed to the fledgling Romantic movement,
but there was always a sense that Shelley was a poet only because it seemed like a proper profession for a young intellectual aristocrat with lots of time on his
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