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The Romantic Period
1780-1830
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Sources of Inspiration
• Examination of inner feelings, emotions, imagination
• The literature of the Middle Ages
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Attitudes and Interests• Idealistic
• Interested in the mysterious and supernatural
• Concerned with the particular
• Sought to develop new forms of expression
• Romanticized the past
• Tended toward excess and spontaneity
• Appreciated folk traditions
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Social Concerns
• Desired radical change
• Favored democracy
• Concerned with the common people
• Concerned with the individual
• Felt that nature should be untamed
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Two Generations of Poets
• 1st Generation included Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
• 2nd Generation included George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.
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Leaders of the Time
• Robert Burns and William Blake were the forerunners of the romantic literature in their subject matter, themes, and style.
• Burns published his Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1896).
• Blake produced his companion books, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
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The Official Beginning
• The poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge teamed up to publish Lyrical Ballads (1798).
• This publication marks the official beginning of the Romantic Period in English literature.
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Romantic Prose Writers
• Essayists included Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas De Quincey.
• Novelists included Mary Shelley, Jane Austin, and Sir Walter Scott