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Romantic Period
This category will have a list of important works during this period.
Term | Definition |
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William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798)along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Romanticism | This movement came to be a new way of viewing -man and his relationship to his environment.Time-line-1798-1850 |
Mary Shelly | Frankenstein-Gothic/1818 |
Elements of Gothic novels | Castle setting/ suspenseful atmosphere/ancient proficiency/omens,portents,visions/supernatural/High even overwrought emotion/women in distress/metonymy of gloom and horror. |
Vocabulary linked to Gothic. | mystery,fear,terror,sorrow,surprise,haste, sorrow,anger,largeness,darkness |
Lord Byron | Don Juan 1819-1824 |
Nathaniel Harthorne | The Scarlet Letter;House of Seven Gables;The Blithdale Romance |