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British Romanticism: From Lyrical Ballads to the Reform Era (1780–1837)

British Romanticism: From Lyrical Ballads to the Reform Era (1780–1837)

  1. Blake’s *Songs of Innocence* introduces a new lyric voice

    Labels: William Blake, Songs of

  2. Storming of the Bastille reshapes British political debate

    Labels: Storming of, French Revolution

  3. Burke’s *Reflections* defines a conservative response

    Labels: Edmund Burke, Reflections on

  4. Paine’s *Rights of Man* fuels radical reform culture

    Labels: Thomas Paine, Rights of

  5. Wollstonecraft’s *Rights of Woman* broadens the “rights” debate

    Labels: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication

  6. *Lyrical Ballads* launches a new poetic program

    Labels: Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and

  7. Wordsworth’s *Preface* articulates Romantic poetic principles

    Labels: Wordsworth, Preface to

  8. Byron’s *Childe Harold* makes the Romantic celebrity-poet

    Labels: Lord Byron, Childe Harold

  9. Shelley’s *Queen Mab* ties poetry to radical critique

    Labels: Percy Shelley, Queen Mab

  10. Coleridge’s *Biographia Literaria* defines key Romantic ideas

    Labels: Samuel Taylor, Biographia Literaria

  11. Mary Shelley’s *Frankenstein* expands Romantic-era Gothic science

    Labels: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  12. Peterloo Massacre shocks reformers and writers

    Labels: Peterloo Massacre, St Peter's

  13. Shelley’s *Prometheus Unbound* imagines the overthrow of tyranny

    Labels: Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

  14. The 1832 Reform Act reshapes the political horizon

    Labels: Reform Act, Representation of

  15. Victoria’s accession signals a new literary-political era

    Labels: Queen Victoria, Victorian accession