Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik / Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: John Keats and Peter Doherty are seen as great poets of their time, and outstanding British romantics. While one's time is in fact the "rise of romanticism" (Bate 1967:73) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, where poetry and criticism are established and acknowledged career pursuits (cf. 82, 224), the other's is today, the post-modern globalised age of entertainment, where art solely...