https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om A Helpful Study Guide to the Literary Time Period en-us 2018-03-30 20:43:39 UTC 2025-09-26 05:27:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/198496337/7f9554b1c75c9b01496f74f213f7172c/download__1_.png walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247553085 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!]]> 2018-03-30 20:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247553085 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247553461 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"]]> 2018-03-30 20:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247553461 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247553938 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]]> 2018-03-30 21:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247553938 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247554740 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]]> 2018-03-30 21:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247554740 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247555311 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."]]> 2018-03-30 21:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247555311 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247611208 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

]]> 2018-03-31 16:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247611208 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247612107 In this section, we'll cover the important historical events that shaped the Romantic Period and its literature.]]> 2018-03-31 16:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247612107 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247612336 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.]]> 2018-03-31 17:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247612336 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247612611 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247612611 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247613093 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247613093 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247613456 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247613456 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247613805 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.]]> 2018-03-31 17:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247613805 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247614033 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247614033 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247614409 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247614409 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247614699 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247614699 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247615070 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247615070 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247615605 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247615605 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247615891 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247615891 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247616084 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]]> 2018-03-31 17:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247616084 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247616492 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/]]> 2018-03-31 18:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247616492 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247616802 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]]> 2018-03-31 18:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247616802 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247620075 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]]> 2018-03-31 18:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247620075 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247620890 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]]> 2018-03-31 19:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247620890 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247621886 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/]]> 2018-03-31 19:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247621886 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247622245 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]]> 2018-03-31 19:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247622245 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247622635 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/]]> 2018-03-31 19:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247622635 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247622991 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]]> 2018-03-31 19:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247622991 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247623449 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]]> 2018-03-31 19:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247623449 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247623841 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]]> 2018-03-31 19:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247623841 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247624321 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]]> 2018-03-31 20:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247624321 walkingintheforest https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247624920 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/]]> 2018-03-31 20:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/walkingintheforest/aj85qpxs07om/wish/247624920