OFF/HW: Poetry With Music

[J Strobridge]

Jon Browne writes:

> OFF : Who was the greater romantic poet, Wordsworth or Blake?

Gods above man!   What a question.....

Well Wordsworth was an unrealistic romantic visionary who was a complete
naff-head when it came to real politics and managed to call the
French Revolution entirely the wrong way

Blake was an unrealistic esoteric religious visionary who tried to
create his own religion through Creation onwards by his visual arts and
his poetry.

And there is of course the entire 18th "Romantic" poets pantheon of
Keats, Shelley, Byron et al. not to mention the Victorian "Romanticists"
of Clare, Tennyson, Thompson and ever onwards....


Aaarghh!  How can you hope to ask such questions and have a realistic
response in less than a 500 page thesis.....................

jill



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