Romantic Period by Devin Cherry https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y Romantic Period in English literature en-us 2018-05-15 18:25:10 UTC 2018-05-15 18:43:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Was a period of great change in England cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260973817 2018-05-15 18:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260973817 American & French Revolutions were very important elements in this era. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260974574 2018-05-15 18:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260974574 Began when Blake and Burns published their first poems in 1785. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260975230 2018-05-15 18:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260975230 Economic and social changes created a desperate need for corresponding political changes, and new social classes were demanding a voice in government. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260975629 2018-05-15 18:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260975629 In response to the French Revolution, the English government prohibited public meetings, suspended habeas corpus (the release from unlawful restraint), and advocates of even moderate political change were charged with high treason. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260975971 2018-05-15 18:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260975971 The industrial revolution began, resulting from the invention of power-driven machinery replacing hand labor. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260976598 2018-05-15 18:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260976598 Open fields and farms were enclosed into privately owned agricultural holdings. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260976985 2018-05-15 18:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260976985 A new labor population massed in the sprawling mill towns that burgeoned in central and northern England. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260977486 2018-05-15 18:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260977486 The landscape began to take on its modern appearance, with rural areas divided into a checkerboard of fields enclosed by hedges and stone walls. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260977685 2018-05-15 18:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260977685 The population polarized into two classes of capital labor, the large owner or trader and the possessionless wage-worker, the rich and the poor. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260977824 2018-05-15 18:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260977824 While the poor were suffering, the landed classes, the industrialists, and many merchants prospered as the British Empire expanded aggressively both westward and eastward. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260978037 2018-05-15 18:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260978037 The British East India Co. ruled the entire Indian sub- continent, and black slave labor in the West Indies generated great wealth for British plantation owners. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979196 2018-05-15 18:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979196 Writers during this time period did not think of themselves as “romantic.” cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979520 2018-05-15 18:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979520 Many writers, however, felt that there was something distinctive about their time – a pervasive intellectual and imaginative climate which they called “the spirit of the age.” cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979677 2018-05-15 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979677 Poets bestowed attitudes and sentiments on the landscape that earlier writers had felt only for God, parents or a beloved. cherrydj514 https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979849 2018-05-15 18:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cherrydj514/kfmj9m8pzj7y/wish/260979849