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Thomas Chatterton (Bristol 1752 - London 1770)
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William Blake publishes "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Blake was a Romantic before the Romantics even came along. In this book, Satan is a hero. Need we say more?
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English Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic and literary movement that came to England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and had a profound impact on English literature. English Romantic literature is characterized by a love of nature, distrust of reason, and rejection of traditional authority. -
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish "Lyrical Ballads"
The publication of this book officially marks the beginning of Romanticism as a literary movement in Britain. -
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Lord Byron publishes Don Juan
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John Keats publishes "Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale". Here below one of his more intense love poems dedicated to Fanny Brawn
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Prometheus Unbound
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Romantic Painters: WILLIAM BLAKE
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Romantic painters: JOHN CONSTABLE: British Landscape artist
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Romantic painters: JOSEPH TURNER
One of the founders of English watercolor landscape painting, he translated scenes into a light-filled expression of his own romantic feelings.
