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Enough of Science and of Art:
Close up those barren leaves
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
From “The Tables Turned”
William Wordsworth
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The Romantic Age1798-1832
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Society’s Problems• Caused by the Industrial
Revolution–overcrowding–working conditions–pollution– long work hours– low pay
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The Writers
• Longed for the simplicity and purity of the past• offered a new perspective on the
world• focused on nature and the common
man
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• The trials and the dreams of the common people• developed out of democratic
idealism• attachment to nature was a
response to the industrial revolution
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The Beginning of the Romantic Age
• Wordsworth and Coleridge published the Lyrical Ballads• Established principles that would
dominate British Literature for decades
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Nature• Was not a force to be tamed and
analyzed scientifically• was a wild and free force that
could inspire poets to instinctive spiritual understanding–“Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your Teacher”
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• Abandoned Classicism and rationalism• condemned the industrial
revolution’s encroachment on the English countryside
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Events of the Time• 1770’s the American colonies won
their independence• July 14, 1789 French citizens
stormed the Bastille to release political prisoners / placed limits on Louis XVI / Declaration of the Rights of Man / constitutional monarchy
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• France declared war on Britain in 1793 lasting for twenty-two years• Napoleonic Wars 1799-1815 when
France was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo
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Supporters of the French Revolution
• William Wordsworth• William Godwin–British society would evolve
peacefully /freedom and equality
• Charles James–“How much the greatest event it is
that ever happened in the world”
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Supporter of the American Revolution
• Edmund Burke–revolution was bound to grow violent
and mourned that “the age of chivalry is gone…and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever”