Write a short note on The First Generation Romantic Poets.
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The Romantic Period encompassed poetic characteristics and visions completely different that anything seen before, rebelling and breaking away from the conservative style of Neoclassicism that preceded it.William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, and Robert Southey are the most famous First Generation Romantic poets. The first generation romantics are characterized by their shift in style and subject manner from the Neo Classicalist. The spirit of romanticism is best defined by Pater as 'Addition of strangeness to beauty' The root and bloom of the process is to be found in a fresh, imaginative approach to Nature. In English poetry it started with the early Romantic Poets. The poets emphasized on the importance of nature in life and society, seeing big, smoke expelling factories as monstrous and completely unnatural. They feared that society would become corrupted and evil as it lost contact with nature and further integrated to an industrialized life.The strange beauties of thought and vision found in the works of the great romantics.
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