1. Romantic Age Lecture

2. Wordsworth

3. Coleridge

4. Lyrical Ballads - 1798

5. Sir Walter Scott Died in 1832

6. First Reform Bill 1. Sought to eliminate rotten boroughs 2. Redistributed parliamentary representation to new industrial cities and extend the vote* * Half the middle class, almost all the working class, and all women remained without a franchise

7. Romantic vs. Romanticism The word romance originally referred to the highly imaginative medieval tales of knightly adventure written in the French derivative of the original Roman (or *Romance) language, Latin. * Romance languages derived from Latin = Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian

8. Declaration of the Rights of Man

9. Storming of the Bastille

10. September Massacres

11. Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

12. Napoleon Bonaparte

13. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli “I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.” “Two Nations” – the two classes of capitol and labor, the large owner or trader and the possessionless wageworker, the rich and the poor.

14. William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850 “emotion recollected in tranquility.” “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” “speak in a language really spoken by men.”

15. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 - 1834 Mysterious and demonic poetry

17. George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 The Byronic hero: Heathcliff, Rochester, Captain Ahab

18. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 - 1822 Mad Shelley Mary Shelley – Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft – Vindication of the Rights of Women

19. John Keats 1795 - 1821 Keats died at the age Of 25. Remember that WW did not start writing in earnest until he was 27. On his death bed, Keats’s achievements greatly exceed that of Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Milton.

20. Poetic Theory and Poetic Practice A.Spontaneity – WW described all good poetry as, at the moment of composition, “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” B.Nature Poems – Nature poems are in fact meditative poems

21. I wandered lonely as a cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee; A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company! I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

22. C. The Commonplace – glorification of the common man and rustic life D. The Supernatural – An interest in the realms of mystery and magic E. Individualism, Infinite Striving, and Nonconformity – A higher estimate was put on human powers. A radical individualism surfaced

23. Gothic Architecture

24. Gothic Novel

25. Gothic Music

26. Gothic Fashion

27. Jane Austen & Sir Walter Scott

28. End of the Romantic Age Death of Sir Walter Scott – 1832 Passage of First Reform Bill – 1832 Queen Victoria’s reign begins – 1837