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Romanticism -- 1798
Event | Date |
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Coleridge preaches at the Unitarian chapel in Shrewsbury and is heard by Hazlitt, aged 17 | 14 January |
Wordsworth composes 'A Night-Peace', initiating a spate of composition including 'The Ruined Cottage', 'The Pedlar', and most of the 1798 Lyrical Ballads | 25 January |
Coleridge writes Frost at Midnight and (until April) Christabel | February |
Wordsworth begins writing 'The Thorn' | 19 March |
Coleridge, 'France: An Ode' published in the Morning Post | 14 April |
Hazlitt visits Nether Stowey and is brought to Alfoxden where he reads the manuscript of Lyrical Ballads | 20 May |
Uprising of the United Irishman, led by Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Wolfe Tone | 23 May |
Malthus publishes Essays on Population | 7 June |
Hazlitt leaves Nether Stowey after a visit of three weeks | 11 June |
Napoleon invades Egypt | July |
Wordsworth and his sister depart from Bristol on a walking-tour of the Wye Valley in the course of which he will compose 'Tintern Abbey' (returning to Bristol 13 July) | 10 July |
Battle of the Nile;Nelson victorious over the French | 1 August |
Lyrical Ballads published anonymously | 18 September |
Coleridge and Wordsworth arrive at Hamburg | 19 September |
Wordsworth in Germany, beings The Two-Part Prelude | 1 November |
Southey's review of Lyrical Ballads appears in Critical Review | 1 November |
Haydn composes The Creation | 1 November |
Joanna Baillie publishes the first volume of her Series of Plays | 1 November |