1. THE ROMANTIC POETS 1798-1832

2. CHANGE! Great political, economic and social change American Revolution 1776-1783 French Revolution 1789-1815 (Napoleon  ) Industrial Revolution1750-1850 Romanticism is a response to the Industrial Revolution

3. ROMANTICISM’S RESPONSE emotion and imagination vs. reason and science reaction against the cold, rational science of the Enlightenment individual experiences vs. society as a whole the individual, personal, emotional movement of protest for freedoms and reform civilian life and work conditions spontaneity vs. order common man vs. ruling class

4. “ROMANTIC” explored new, psychological and mysterious aspects of human experience fascination with youth and innocence (seeing the world as “new”) social idealism: question authority in order to imagine better, fairer, happier ways to live ability to adapt to change

5. ROMANTICS: “MIND POETS” sought a deeper understanding of the bond between human beings and the world of the senses often used natural poetic forms

6. CENTRAL POETS William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772-1834 John Keats1795-1821 Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Lord Byron (1788-1824) Jane Austen(1775-1817)