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Welcome to the Romantic Period! 1789-1837

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Welcome to the Romantic Period! 1789-1837

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The Romantic period began with the French Revolution, as Britain watched the events that occurred just over the channel. This is an age of industry, revolution, poetry, drugs, and nature. Let's jump right in!

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This was a literary characteristic that dealt with a romanticized idea of nature. It was seen as the overflow of emotions brought about by the beauty of nature.
Definition: "of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe"

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This was a well-used genre that entailed dark topics, such as mental illness and the grotesque, while also dealing with the supernatural and sublime. While this was a genre, it was also an architectural style brought on by the Goths.
https://www.livescience.com/45948-ancient-goths.html

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How do you make Gothic literature?
Well, start with supernatural elements. Then, add in some grotesque stuff, a handful of anti-Catholic ideals, a whole heap of mental illness, and a healthy sprinkle of heightened emotion. Mix it all together and....
#en2490 #gothic

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How do you make Gothic literature?
Well, start with supernatural elements. Then, add in some grotesque stuff, a handful of anti-Catholic ideals, a whole heap of mental illness, and a healthy sprinkle of heightened emotion. Mix it all together and....
#en2490 #gothic https://t.co/GscYSZ6Q8o

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How do you make Gothic literature?
Well, start with supernatural elements. Then, add in some grotesque stuff, a handful of anti-Catholic ideals, a whole heap of mental illness, and a healthy sprinkle of heightened emotion. Mix it all together and....#en2490 #gothic pic.twitter.com/GscYSZ6Q8o
— Amelia McLeod (@ameliaofmcleod) February 28, 2018

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How do you make Gothic literature?
Well, start with supernatural elements. Then, add in some grotesque stuff, a handful of anti-Catholic ideals, a whole heap of mental illness, and a healthy sprinkle of heightened emotion. Mix it all together and....
#en2490 #gothic https://t.co/GscYSZ6Q8o

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How do you make Gothic literature?
Well, start with supernatural elements. Then, add in some grotesque stuff, a handful of anti-Catholic ideals, a whole heap of mental illness, and a healthy sprinkle of heightened emotion. Mix it all together and....
#en2490 #gothic https://t.co/GscYSZ6Q8o

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How do you make Gothic literature?
Well, start with supernatural elements. Then, add in some grotesque stuff, a handful of anti-Catholic ideals, a whole heap of mental illness, and a healthy sprinkle of heightened emotion. Mix it all together and....
#en2490 #gothic

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While today we think of romance as dealing with love, the name for the era actually comes from the word "roman." It was named as such due to the romance genre, which was a popular form back in the Medieval age of England. Again, this has nothing to do with the romance genre today. The romance we're talking about had one main character attempting to complete a quest, in a world that had some element of the supernatural. This era is so named because of the revival of this type of story-telling.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846719/obo-9780199846719-0115.xml

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The fact that the Romantic Period being named the Romantic Period has correlation with hearts, roses or love.... #en2490

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The fact that the Romantic Period being named the Romantic Period has correlation with hearts, roses or love.... #en2490 https://t.co/hJkTYluVmF

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The fact that the Romantic Period being named the Romantic Period has correlation with hearts, roses or love.... #en2490 pic.twitter.com/hJkTYluVmF
— Taylor Catherine (@taylorcbro2355) February 28, 2018

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The fact that the Romantic Period being named the Romantic Period has correlation with hearts, roses or love.... #en2490 https://t.co/hJkTYluVmF

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The fact that the Romantic Period being named the Romantic Period has correlation with hearts, roses or love.... #en2490 https://t.co/hJkTYluVmF

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The fact that the Romantic Period being named the Romantic Period has correlation with hearts, roses or love.... #en2490

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This was a commonly used form of the sublime. It essentially centered on the elation of the sublime feelings of nature and how those feelings related to oneself. Evidence of this would be a poet claiming a place in nature as somehow belonging to them.
Egotistical: "excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered."

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This was a common troupe in slavery texts used to show the lack of understanding an African slave would have for American/European culture. The slave would be confused by the sight of people staring at books and believe that the book talked. Yet, trying this for themselves, the character would find that the book would not talk to them. This is seen in Olaudah Equiano's narrative The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.

http://web.utk.edu/~gerard/romanticpolitics/slavery.html

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"Why won't the book talk to me?" #en2490

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"Why won't the book talk to me?" #en2490 https://t.co/yYusexBFr6

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"Why won't the book talk to me?" #en2490 pic.twitter.com/yYusexBFr6
— molly (@meandrews07) February 28, 2018

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"Why won't the book talk to me?" #en2490 https://t.co/yYusexBFr6

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"Why won't the book talk to me?" #en2490 https://t.co/yYusexBFr6

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"Why won't the book talk to me?" #en2490

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In this section, we'll cover the important historical events that shaped the Romantic Period and its literature.

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The Romantic Period is quite well known for its literature. The likes of Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, and Shelley are still on the tongues of people in the literary world today. To understand why, it is important to look at the literary conventions these writers and others utilized during this period.

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The French Revolution/The Napoleonic Wars

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The French Revolution/The Napoleonic Wars

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As it was stated earlier, the Romantic period began with the rise of the French Revolution. The people of France rebelled against their government. Britain was frightened by this, fearing what it could mean for their own government. During the revolution, General Napoleon Bonaparte steps forward, claiming his right as the emperor of Europe. These wars occurred between 1803-1815, and eventually started to cause the loss of Napoleon's favor with the people of France.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Napoleonic-Wars

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When Napoleon names himself Emperor of France and everyone's pumped but then people start getting decapitated left and right... #en2490

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When Napoleon names himself Emperor of France and everyone's pumped but then people start getting decapitated left and right... #en2490 https://t.co/ONKZLJX3Rg

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When Napoleon names himself Emperor of France and everyone's pumped but then people start getting decapitated left and right... #en2490 pic.twitter.com/ONKZLJX3Rg
— Taylor Catherine (@taylorcbro2355) February 28, 2018

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When Napoleon names himself Emperor of France and everyone's pumped but then people start getting decapitated left and right... #en2490 https://t.co/ONKZLJX3Rg

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When Napoleon names himself Emperor of France and everyone's pumped but then people start getting decapitated left and right... #en2490 https://t.co/ONKZLJX3Rg

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When Napoleon names himself Emperor of France and everyone's pumped but then people start getting decapitated left and right... #en2490

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As any know, the sonnet was a particular style of poetry quite popular with the likes of Shakespeare and Sidney. This form has been abandoned for some time before being revived by the one and only Charlotte Smith. Her sonnets were quite popular, even though they bent the rules. Most sonnets consisted of fourteen lines, an abab rhyme scheme, and iambic pentameter.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/sonnet-poetic-form

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"Charlotte Smith, bringing the sexy sonnet back." 
#en2490 #straightfromtheprofessorsmouth #lovingthesonnets

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"Charlotte Smith, bringing the sexy sonnet back." 
#en2490 #straightfromtheprofessorsmouth #lovingthesonnets https://t.co/Q0BPF5PSN1

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During the Romantic period, as well as many other eras, women and colored writers were ignored. Their works were popular, but they were written out of the literary canon. In the Romantic period, this consisted of writers such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Olaudah Equiano.
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/arts_and_entertainment/literary-canons-exclude-works-no-matter-how-selective-canon-makers/article_da83def2-ad43-11e2-b07a-0019bb30f31a.html

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The Industrial Revolution began during the Romantic Period. To start off with, there were no labor laws and people worked 16-hour days. To top that off, children were also forced into labor no later than five-years-old. While industry itself marched forward, the working class suffered.
https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution

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Child labor, crime and poverty...the Industrial Revolution sure sounded fun ?? #en2490

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Child labor, crime and poverty...the Industrial Revolution sure sounded fun ?? #en2490 https://t.co/HFbciqjxQi

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Child labor, crime and poverty...the Industrial Revolution sure sounded fun ?? #en2490 pic.twitter.com/HFbciqjxQi
— Taylor Catherine (@taylorcbro2355) March 5, 2018

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Child labor, crime and poverty...the Industrial Revolution sure sounded fun ?? #en2490 https://t.co/HFbciqjxQi

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Child labor, crime and poverty...the Industrial Revolution sure sounded fun ?? #en2490 https://t.co/HFbciqjxQi

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Child labor, crime and poverty...the Industrial Revolution sure sounded fun ?? #en2490

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This was a bill that specified that men who owned a certain number of acres of land could vote in elections. This is also argued to be the real end-date of the Romantic Period.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/politics/g6/

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Newsflash:
Start to expand votes by having MEN that owned a certain amount of property the right to vote, this is how the Romantic Period comes to a close.
 #en2490

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Newsflash:
Start to expand votes by having MEN that owned a certain amount of property the right to vote, this is how the Romantic Period comes to a close.
 #en2490

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Newsflash:
Start to expand votes by having MEN that owned a certain amount of property the right to vote, this is how the Romantic Period comes to a close.
#en2490
— molly (@meandrews07) March 5, 2018

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Newsflash:
Start to expand votes by having MEN that owned a certain amount of property the right to vote, this is how the Romantic Period comes to a close.
 #en2490

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Newsflash:
Start to expand votes by having MEN that owned a certain amount of property the right to vote, this is how the Romantic Period comes to a close.
 #en2490

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Newsflash:
Start to expand votes by having MEN that owned a certain amount of property the right to vote, this is how the Romantic Period comes to a close.
 #en2490

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At the end of the Romantic Period, Queen Victoria ascends the throne. Her taking the throne in 1837 closed the Romantic Period, and turned to the Victorian era.
https://www.biography.com/people/queen-victoria-9518355

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While we recognize what shaped the literature of the time, we must also recognize who it was that was writing said literature, and who these people were.

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Mary Robinson had quite the life, and was actually paid to quit her job as an actress to become someone's mistress. When that fell through, she was then payed in installments to be someone else's mistress instead. Other interesting points in her life consisted of giving birth in prison, and becoming paralyzed from the waist down. She is the mind behind "The Haunted Beach."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-robinson

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Mary Robinson: Has a baby in prison, loved acting, had a sugar daddy who never pays her who just so happens to be the future king of England, gets another sugar daddy who DOES pay her, is paralyzed from the waist down, and becomes a famous writer... damn you go girl
#en2490

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Mary Robinson: Has a baby in prison, loved acting, had a sugar daddy who never pays her who just so happens to be the future king of England, gets another sugar daddy who DOES pay her, is paralyzed from the waist down, and becomes a famous writer... damn you go girl
#en2490

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Mary Robinson: Has a baby in prison, loved acting, had a sugar daddy who never pays her who just so happens to be the future king of England, gets another sugar daddy who DOES pay her, is paralyzed from the waist down, and becomes a famous writer... damn you go girl#en2490
— Griffin Nyhan (@griffin_nyhan) February 28, 2018

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Mary Robinson: Has a baby in prison, loved acting, had a sugar daddy who never pays her who just so happens to be the future king of England, gets another sugar daddy who DOES pay her, is paralyzed from the waist down, and becomes a famous writer... damn you go girl
#en2490

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Mary Robinson: Has a baby in prison, loved acting, had a sugar daddy who never pays her who just so happens to be the future king of England, gets another sugar daddy who DOES pay her, is paralyzed from the waist down, and becomes a famous writer... damn you go girl
#en2490

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Mary Robinson: Has a baby in prison, loved acting, had a sugar daddy who never pays her who just so happens to be the future king of England, gets another sugar daddy who DOES pay her, is paralyzed from the waist down, and becomes a famous writer... damn you go girl
#en2490

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Olaudah Equiano was born in Africa and taken as a slave when he was only a boy. His narrative The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano highlights his real life experiences as he travels across the world, is subjected to name changes, and eventually buys his own freedom.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p276.html

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Equiano ends up buying himself out of slavery. So, in order to save himself and escape from the system, he has to participate in and be a member of the system. 
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Equiano ends up buying himself out of slavery. So, in order to save himself and escape from the system, he has to participate in and be a member of the system. 
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Equiano ends up buying himself out of slavery. So, in order to save himself and escape from the system, he has to participate in and be a member of the system. #en2490
— Griffin Nyhan (@griffin_nyhan) February 28, 2018

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Equiano ends up buying himself out of slavery. So, in order to save himself and escape from the system, he has to participate in and be a member of the system. 
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Equiano ends up buying himself out of slavery. So, in order to save himself and escape from the system, he has to participate in and be a member of the system. 
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Equiano ends up buying himself out of slavery. So, in order to save himself and escape from the system, he has to participate in and be a member of the system. 
#en2490

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As stated earlier, Smith was credited with bringing the sonnet back to life. Beyond that, Charlotte Smith led an impoverished life with her husband and child. During that time, she wrote to keep the family out of debt, and subsequently, out of debtor's prison. One of her more popular poems was "On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charlotte-smith

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Writing poetry to get you and your husband out of debt.
#en2490 #CharlotteSmith #Englishmajorproblemsolving

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Writing poetry to get you and your husband out of debt.
#en2490 #CharlotteSmith #Englishmajorproblemsolving https://t.co/gN1v9M1BEO

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This was quite common among the Romantics, who sought to branch out and not be hindered by the specific rules of certain literary forms. Hence, most poetry or prose broke from traditional forms altogether.
http://electricka.com/etaf/muses/literature/literary_forms/literary_forms_popups/form_schema.htm

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"Form hinders my edgy, emo poetry."
What a succinct way to sum up the Romantics.
#en2490 #heardinBritLit

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"Form hinders my edgy, emo poetry."
What a succinct way to sum up the Romantics.
#en2490 #heardinBritLit

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Anna Barbauld was quite the activist in her day, writing about the equality that women should have with men. Two of her more popular works were "Epistle to William Wilberforce" and "The Rights of Women."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-laetitia-barbauld

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Lyric poetry was quite popular during the Romantic Period. This emphasized the heart over the mind, or the use of feelings to convey meaning, rather that thought. It was named "lyric" because of the ways in which it resembled music.
https://www.britannica.com/art/lyric

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Newsflash:
Lyrical Poetry should come from the heart not the brain  
#en2490

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Newsflash:
Lyrical Poetry should come from the heart not the brain  
#en2490 https://t.co/BVl8YUzGse

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Newsflash:
Lyrical Poetry should come from the heart not the brain #en2490 pic.twitter.com/BVl8YUzGse
— molly (@meandrews07) March 5, 2018

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Newsflash:
Lyrical Poetry should come from the heart not the brain  
#en2490 https://t.co/BVl8YUzGse

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Newsflash:
Lyrical Poetry should come from the heart not the brain  
#en2490 https://t.co/BVl8YUzGse

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Newsflash:
Lyrical Poetry should come from the heart not the brain  
#en2490

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This was an idea that there were two "halves" of the globe: the Orient and the Oxident. In layman's terms: the East and the West. This idea posed the West as being "civilized," while the East was exotic in nature, but closer to nature and therefore more rudimentary. This became a problem because it lumped many countries of Asia, and some of Africa, into one culture.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/intro-becoming-modern/a/orientalism

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The Orient: Pretty much all parts of Asia besides Russia, and even part of Africa. 
Orientalism is an othering of Eastern peoples, viewing them as both exotic and demonic.
#en2490 #lumpingnations

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The Orient: Pretty much all parts of Asia besides Russia, and even part of Africa. 
Orientalism is an othering of Eastern peoples, viewing them as both exotic and demonic.
#en2490 #lumpingnations https://t.co/MAPJUbkfGo

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William Blake was an artist well before he was a poet. Specifically, he was well-known for his engravings. Even once he started writing poetry, he would create engravings to accompany his works. His more popular works consist of Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience. These were volumes of poetry for children that mirrored each other. For instance, Blake would had one poem titled "The Chimney Sweeper" in each volume, both talking about the same topic, but from drastically different angles.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-blake

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"Song of Innocence; The Chimney Sweeper" is super naive, including a blind acceptance of religion.
"Song of Experience; The Chimney Sweeper" is about a child calling out the faults in religion.
Blake's using dichotomies to emphasize problems in religion.
#en2490 #WilliamBlake

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"Song of Innocence; The Chimney Sweeper" is super naive, including a blind acceptance of religion.
"Song of Experience; The Chimney Sweeper" is about a child calling out the faults in religion.
Blake's using dichotomies to emphasize problems in religion.
#en2490 #WilliamBlake https://t.co/ETnXEcIJAV

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"Song of Innocence; The Chimney Sweeper" is super naive, including a blind acceptance of religion.
"Song of Experience; The Chimney Sweeper" is about a child calling out the faults in religion.
Blake's using dichotomies to emphasize problems in religion.#en2490 #WilliamBlake pic.twitter.com/ETnXEcIJAV
— Amelia McLeod (@ameliaofmcleod) March 5, 2018

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"Song of Innocence; The Chimney Sweeper" is super naive, including a blind acceptance of religion.
"Song of Experience; The Chimney Sweeper" is about a child calling out the faults in religion.
Blake's using dichotomies to emphasize problems in religion.
#en2490 #WilliamBlake https://t.co/ETnXEcIJAV

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"Song of Innocence; The Chimney Sweeper" is super naive, including a blind acceptance of religion.
"Song of Experience; The Chimney Sweeper" is about a child calling out the faults in religion.
Blake's using dichotomies to emphasize problems in religion.
#en2490 #WilliamBlake https://t.co/ETnXEcIJAV

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"Song of Innocence; The Chimney Sweeper" is super naive, including a blind acceptance of religion.
"Song of Experience; The Chimney Sweeper" is about a child calling out the faults in religion.
Blake's using dichotomies to emphasize problems in religion.
#en2490 #WilliamBlake

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William Wordsworth was one of the best-known writers of the Romantic period. He was quite the prolific writer, and had much time on his hands. He rewrote the introduction to Lyrical Ballads three separate times. Beyond simply writing, partying, and chilling with his sister Dorothy and his best friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth spent a lot of time thinking about his philosophies on literature. He believed that literature should be about every day events, in the language of the "common man" (no Greek or Latin), and come from an overflowing of emotions or inspiration. Some of his most popular poems are Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey, "Resolution & Independence," and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-wordsworth

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Britain, some time during the Romantic Period, was trading different things left and right. One of the things they gained from these trading endeavors was an opium channel with certain Eastern countries. Opium was illegal there, but abundant, so it was easy to trade for. By the middle of the era, the entire country was addicted to opium. It was given to patients for things as simple as headaches. It was used for all ailments, even for crying babies and pregnant women. This helped to influence much of the literature of this time period because of the dreams that were induced by the consumption of opium.
http://psypressuk.com/2011/03/14/literary-review-opium-and-the-romantic-imagination-by-alethea-hayter/

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The Romantic period was full of drugs! 
Opium: a drug from The Orient used for making your pain stop, and for knocking out whining babies!
Laudanum: opium dissolved in alcohol! Healthy!
No wonder everyone was obsessing over flowers all the time.
#en2490 #somanydrugs #wowsohealthy

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The Romantic period was full of drugs! 
Opium: a drug from The Orient used for making your pain stop, and for knocking out whining babies!
Laudanum: opium dissolved in alcohol! Healthy!
No wonder everyone was obsessing over flowers all the time.
#en2490 #somanydrugs #wowsohealthy https://t.co/tz9ncwZEtd

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Firstly, De Quincy is known for creating the "familiar novel," which closely followed the life of the writer through their own eyes, and would invite the reader into the mind of the writer. This was especially notable for De Quincey because of his rampant use of opium. Even when he was impoverished and living in squalor with his wife and child, it drove his thoughts and actions. He was heavily addicted, and wrote stories about the crazy opium dreams he experienced. Arguably, his most famous work is probably Confessions of an Opium Eater.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-De-Quincey

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"Every college kids dream: taking drugs, having dreams, and then writing about them."
I'm sure most of us wish we could have made a living like Thomas De Quincy.
#en2490 #straightfromtheprofessorsmouth #paidtogethigh #hightogetpaid #ThomanDeQuincy #handmethelaudanum

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"Every college kids dream: taking drugs, having dreams, and then writing about them."
I'm sure most of us wish we could have made a living like Thomas De Quincy.
#en2490 #straightfromtheprofessorsmouth #paidtogethigh #hightogetpaid #ThomanDeQuincy #handmethelaudanum https://t.co/IKvIxpKQW3

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This was a convention used hand-in-hand with Orientalism. It either saw the East as sensual, exotic, charming, and desirous, or as demonic, evil, enchanted, and magical (in a bad way). These views heavily stigmatized the East. Beyond that, they voiced Britain's fears of being taken over, or over-run by their old colonies.
https://thetwochairs.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/exotic-is-not-a-compliment/

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The demonic other and the exotic other. Both of these are just names used by racists to make themselves sound MORE racist. #en2490

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The demonic other and the exotic other. Both of these are just names used by racists to make themselves sound MORE racist. #en2490 https://t.co/mnko8ntBP3

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The demonic other and the exotic other. Both of these are just names used by racists to make themselves sound MORE racist. #en2490 pic.twitter.com/mnko8ntBP3
— Taylor Catherine (@taylorcbro2355) March 12, 2018

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The demonic other and the exotic other. Both of these are just names used by racists to make themselves sound MORE racist. #en2490 https://t.co/mnko8ntBP3

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The demonic other and the exotic other. Both of these are just names used by racists to make themselves sound MORE racist. #en2490 https://t.co/mnko8ntBP3

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The demonic other and the exotic other. Both of these are just names used by racists to make themselves sound MORE racist. #en2490

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Coleridge was a great friend of William Wordsworth, and would often collaborate with him on certain works. Yet, he was also a poet in his own right. Like De Quincey, he often used opium for inspiration. He even states so in his poem "Kubla Khan." Coleridge is well-known for his Orientalist "Kubla Khan," and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/samuel-taylor-coleridge

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Maybe drugs do create inspiration.
Coleridge certainly thought so when he wrote "Kubla Khan."
He even lost his dazed state and, BAM, inspiration gone.
But was it real? Or did he fake it?
#en2490 #dreambrain #SamuelTaylorColeridge #realorno

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Maybe drugs do create inspiration.
Coleridge certainly thought so when he wrote "Kubla Khan."
He even lost his dazed state and, BAM, inspiration gone.
But was it real? Or did he fake it?
#en2490 #dreambrain #SamuelTaylorColeridge #realorno https://t.co/zhQskeBe32

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John Keats was quite the young poet, becoming famous before the age of 21. Sadly, he passed only five years later after succumbing to tuberculosis. Keats brings back the Classical form that Neo-classicists used in the Restoration Period. His most prominent works were Lamia, "Ode to a Grecian Urn," and "Ode to a Nightingale."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-keats

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Ann: "What do you think Keats is saying about women?"
"That they are trickster, demon snakes."
#en2490 #sexistsnakes #JohnKeats #heardinBritLit

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Ann: "What do you think Keats is saying about women?"
"That they are trickster, demon snakes."
#en2490 #sexistsnakes #JohnKeats #heardinBritLit https://t.co/0eh8zhucta

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Shelley was another poet who sought to bring back the Classical form. He was also married to Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein. One of the ideas that Percy Shelley promotes is the idea of the West Wind. This was seen as being the West's inspiration, and was thought to have moved to the Americas during this time period. He was known for writing such works as "Mont Blanc," "Ozymandias," and "Ode to the West Wind."
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/percy-bysshe-shelley

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Shelley asks the West Wind (his inspiration) to spread his work and poems once the autumn (old age) of his life is passed and he is dead. He writes this when the winter of his life is coming for him. 
#en2490 #PercyShelley #OdetotheWestWind #WinterisComing

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Shelley asks the West Wind (his inspiration) to spread his work and poems once the autumn (old age) of his life is passed and he is dead. He writes this when the winter of his life is coming for him. 
#en2490 #PercyShelley #OdetotheWestWind #WinterisComing https://t.co/0EupICk9zQ

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Shelley asks the West Wind (his inspiration) to spread his work and poems once the autumn (old age) of his life is passed and he is dead. He writes this when the winter of his life is coming for him. #en2490 #PercyShelley #OdetotheWestWind #WinterisComing pic.twitter.com/0EupICk9zQ
— Amelia McLeod (@ameliaofmcleod) March 14, 2018

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Shelley asks the West Wind (his inspiration) to spread his work and poems once the autumn (old age) of his life is passed and he is dead. He writes this when the winter of his life is coming for him. 
#en2490 #PercyShelley #OdetotheWestWind #WinterisComing https://t.co/0EupICk9zQ

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Shelley asks the West Wind (his inspiration) to spread his work and poems once the autumn (old age) of his life is passed and he is dead. He writes this when the winter of his life is coming for him. 
#en2490 #PercyShelley #OdetotheWestWind #WinterisComing https://t.co/0EupICk9zQ

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Shelley asks the West Wind (his inspiration) to spread his work and poems once the autumn (old age) of his life is passed and he is dead. He writes this when the winter of his life is coming for him. 
#en2490 #PercyShelley #OdetotheWestWind #WinterisComing

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Overall, the Romantic literary period dealt with the emotions of the time period. It emphasized nature, poverty, drug use, and the working class. The literature itself was either dark and gloomy, or purely sublime. For the Romantic era, not much about it was all that romantic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
I hope this guide was helpful in aiding your understanding of the course. Happy reading!

Art Source: https://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/03/03/the-basics-of-art-the-romantic-period/