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Questions for discuss in Class Characteristics of Romanticism William Wordsworth Representative poet, chief spokesman of Romantic poetry What are the features of Lake Poets ? Features of their poems Theme characteristics of style. （1） The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings （2） The creation of a world of imagination （3） The return to nature for material （4） Sympathy with the humble and glorification of the commonplace （5） Emphasis upon the expression of individual genius （6） The return to Milton and the Elizabethans for literary models （7） The interest in old stories and medieval romance （8 A sense of melancholy and loneliness （9） The rebellious spirit  Along with Marys step-sister, the couple traveled to France, Switzerland and Germany before returning to London where he took a house with Mary on the edge of Great Windsor Park and wrote Alastor (1816), the poem that first brought him fame. In 1816 Shelley spent the summer on Lake Geneva（日内瓦湖区） with Byron and Mary who had begun work on her Frankenstein. In the autumn of that year Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine in Hyde Park and Shelley then married Mary and settled with her, in 1817, at Great Marlow, on the Thames. They later traveled to Italy, where Shelley wrote the sonnet Ozymandias (written 1818) and translated Plato‘s Symposium（讨论会） from the Greek. Shelley himself drowned in a sailing accident in 1822. .. In 1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook.( a sixteen year old daughter of a coffee-house keeper) And, one year later, went with her and her older sister first to Dublin, then to Devon（德文郡） and North Wales, where they stayed for six months into 1813. However, by 1814, and with the birth of two children, their marriage had collapsed and Shelley eloped once again, this time with Mary Godwin. This created a terrible scandal and Shelleys father never forgave him for what he had done.  As a young man , Shelley had developed a strong hat