Romanticism in English literature of the Beginning of the 19th Century (The Age of Romanticism) Britain became a large trading empire. The cities grew fast. London remained the largest one. In the 19th century Britain was at its height and self confidence. It was called the "workshop" of the world. The rich feared the poor both in the countryside and in the fast-growing towns. Nevertheless the great emphasis was made on the individual based on interdependence of Man and Nature.
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"Life is a dream walking. Death is going home." - Chinese proverb. If life was supposed to be easy‚ everyone would go through the days knowing the answers to their lives. Nothing would be an unexpected surprise to people‚ but that is not the case. Instead‚ we attempt to plan out every day and learn to expect the unexpected. A person can try to plan the best future for him or herself‚ but when it comes down to it‚ it is ultimately not in his or her hands. Whether a person is rich or poor‚ beautiful
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VI: Burns "Tis Liberty’s bold note I swell" "Here’s a Health to them that’s awa" "For a’that and a’that" "Afton Water" Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads‚ “Strange Fits Have I known‚”“I wandered Lonely as a Cloud‚” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality‚”“The Solitary Reaper‚” “Michael‚” “The Ruined Cottage” From The Prelude‚ Book‚ I and II. “Lucy Gray” Week VII: Wordsworth Week VIII: Coleridge‚ Conversation Poems: “The Eolian Harp” “Reflections on Having Left and Place of Retirement” “This Lime-Tree
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John Donne’s “Death‚ be not proud” and Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” though have contrasting features; they both examine death and life after death. John Donne was an Anglican minister during his lifetime in Elizabethan England. He was deeply religious‚ and my of his poems have Christian symbolisms. John Donne in his poem personifies death as
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Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ Kubla Khan. P. B. Shelley: Ozymandias G. G. Byron: Childe Harold (A). John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn Mary Shelley: Frankenstein. I. The Anglo-Saxon Age. From aristeia to aristobios during the heroic age. . The orally composed epic fixed in writing by Christian monks. . The heroic versus the elegiac assessment
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offer letter from the University of Chicago‚ he goes into the house to find his father reading aloud in his study. Norman and Reverend John Maclean recite various excerpts strung together from the poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth: (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚) Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness‚ And not in utter nakedness‚ But trailing clouds of glory do
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THE 18TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS -From 1775 til 1763 was the American War of Independence. 1780 was an uprising called “The Gordon Riots” in London; they were an anti-Catholic uprising against the Papists Act of 1778. -Then followed the French Revolution. 1789 was the fall of Bastille and 1793 was the Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France declared war against Britain. 1804 Napoleon was crowned emperor. -Industrial Revolution: James Watt perfected the steam engine and 1776 the first
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Prometheus Unbound: The Quintessential Philosophy of Percy Bysshe Shelley Three years before his death‚ Shelley wrote what many consider his masterpiece‚ Prometheus Unbound. Considering Shelley’s rebellious nature‚ the choice of the authority defying Prometheus as hero is not surprising. For Shelley‚ Prometheus came to symbolize the mind or soul of man in its highest potential. Two of Shelley’s favorite themes lie at the heart of Prometheus Unbound: the external tyranny of rulers‚ customs
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thing for yourself. If you do it means that the work worths the efforts spent. I chose John Keats for my work for some reasons: * All three of the great “second generation” of Romantic poets died young: Byron died at the age of thirty-six‚ Shelley died when he was twenty-nine‚ but John Keats died when he was only twenty-five. * Although John Keats had not been precocious‚ his earliest poems‚ written in his late teens‚ are conventional and unpromising‚ and‚ in fact‚ most of his great work
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