Blake, The Precursor of Romantic Poetry
William Blake is regarded
as the precursor of romantic poetry. He belongs to the age of transition from
late 18th century to early 19th century poetry. Some of
his poems are like the poems of 18th century poets because they give
us a picture of life and society. His group of poems give us the impression of
English romantic poetry because they are imaginative, sensuous and simple like the
romantic poets. He writes about the beauty of nature, hills, sea, birds, tress,
forest etc. which became the subject matter of romantic poets. Before the
arrival of the romantic poets he wrote romantic poetry. Therefore he can be
called the precursor of romantic poetry. It seems that romantic poets followed
the style of Blake and gave a full expression to Blake’s romanticism.
