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    In the Romantic period‚ many authors make references to different social concerns. This enabled the authors to hint towards different concerns in their writing‚ but not come directly out and state their concerns. Three great examples of authors like this include: William Blake‚ Robert Burns‚ and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Each of these authors had unique concerns that they were able to get across in their own way. Blake wrote two poems with entitled "Chimney Sweeper." One version was found in his

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    During what is generally defined as the Romantic period‚ many poets‚ scientists and philosophers were greatly intrigued by dreams. Southey kept a dream journal‚ as did Sir Hymphry Davy‚ a close friend of Coleridge’s; Thomas Beddoes wrote of dreams from a medical perspective in Hygeia and dreams were often a hot topic of conversation at the dinner parties of those who kept company with poets and the like (Ford 1998:5). There were many contradictory theories on the importance‚ interpretation and origin

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    DRAMA FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD TO MODERN TIMES Drama has revolutionized our era from the Romantic Period to the modern times with its vast developments over the years. Until the nineteenth century‚ most European playwrights "drew their tragic plots from ancient myths or legendary history" (Berggren 1). The choices of the dramatic subjects demonstrated that truly important things only happened to people with a high social status amongst society. In the Romantic Period (1785-1830)‚ interest in the

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    Romantic Period (circa 1800-1900) The Romantic Era sprung from literature and free thinking caused by the French Revolution (1789-1794). Stories and poems of heroics written in the Romance languages – French‚ Spanish‚ Italian and other Latin-based languages – conjured images of fantasy and imaginary other worlds. The Romantic period was somewhat detached from reality‚ and focused less on the present than on the past and future. Music was seen as the best medium to express the values of the Romantic

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    The writings of the poets of the Romantic Period were directly affected by the events that took place around them. Most of these writers were deeply associated with London‚ and as the capital of England‚ anything that took place affected them most. This was a direct reflection of the subject matter of their various works‚ from the influence of the Church of England‚ to the rights of women during that time period. The first work of this time period I will discuss is London from William Blake’s Songs

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    Characteristics of the Romantic Period in William Wordsworth’s poem “Tintern Abbey.” Tintern Abbey is a poem written by William Wordsworth‚ a British romantic poet born in 1770 and died in 1850. The full title of this poem is “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey‚ on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13‚ 1798.” (p. 190) The poem evokes nature‚ memory and basically all the characteristics of the romantic period. Throughout Wordsworth’s work nature

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    Everyone in this society has his or her own definition of the word “romantic.” The word gives off the notion of “sentiment and sentimentality‚ a visionary or idealistic lack of reality. It connotes fantasy and fiction. It has been associated with different times and with distant places: the island of Bali‚ the world of the Arabian Nights‚ the age of the troubadours and even Manhattan.”(Kreis) Romanticism is used all over the world as it relates to many different things. From advertisements in

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    Intro to The Romantic Period At the turn of the century‚ fired by ideas of personal and political liberty and of the energy and sublimity of the natural world‚ artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th-century convention. Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin had great influence‚ the French Revolution and its aftermath had the strongest impact of all. In England initial support for the Revolution was primarily utopian and idealist‚ and when the French failed

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    Romantic Sonnet The Romantic sonnet holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature‚ the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. In Charlotte Smith’s "Sonnet XII - Written on the Sea Shore‚" the speaker of the poem embodies two important aspects of Romantic work in relating his or her personal feelings

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    Notes: • The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution had an important influence on the fictional and nonfictional writing of the Romantic period‚ inspiring writers to address themes of democracy and human rights and to consider the function of revolution as apocalyptic change. • Romantic poets presented a theory of poetry in direct opposition to representative eighteenth-century theories of poetry as imitative of human life and nature by suggesting that poetic inspiration was located

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