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The Romantics, Timeline BBC
This timeline of publishing dates from the Romantic period highlights some key writing that formed the basis for much of the artistic and political thought of the day. It also gives background to some of the most influencial poems created by the Engl... |
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William Blake, Poet and Painter
William Blake was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th- century. Misunderstanding shadow... |
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William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth, British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
In 1795 he met Coleridge. Wordsworth's financial situation becam... |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,(1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement.
Coleridge's collection Poems On Various Subjects was published in 1796, a... |
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E. T. A. Hoffmann, Composer & Writer
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's stories were tremendously influential in the 19th ce... |
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Lord Byron, Poet
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was among the most famous of the English 'Romantic' poets; his contemporaries included Percy Shelley and John Keats. He was also a satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.... |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the e... |
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John Keats, Poet
John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821), yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little more than five years (1814-1820), and three of his great odes--"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grec... |
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Mary Shelley, Writer of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the writer of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Shelley was 21 when the book was published; she started to write it when she was 18. The story... |
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Alfred Tennyson, Poet
Alfred Tennyson, English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father... |
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