95 Romantics Period Politics/economy o time of change and unrest in all categories Industrial Revolution agricultural society to industrial society

ety Revolution American French (bloody) Authors not read in class o Thomas Paine Rights of Man Common Sense spread thought and support for revolution Englishman who turned to the Americans o William Godwin radical works: In Query Concerning Political Justice Caleb Williams o novels of purpose o Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of Rights of Women response to Paines Rights of Man Authors o William Blake Possessor of a divine image Poetical Sketches 1783 Songs of Innocence 1789 Songs of Innocence and Experience 1794 The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem 1820 o Robert Burns Scottish wrote in native dialect common man Songs: For a that and a that Tam OShanter To a Mouse To a Louse o George Gordon = Lord Byron I awoke one morning and found myself famous

96 Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos Childe Harolde Canto 3 Don Juan born with misshapen foot club food made worse by procedures only romantic poet who didnt fit the form looked backed to previous eras Romantic topics in Classical form created the Byronic hero loner remorse tone, but unrepentant sexual attractive to opposite sex moody passionate something in past causes anger never revealed literary hero focus in here and now, not about religion or afterlife, ect Niche created the ubermensch o observes and takes part in society o man w/ super human abilities o makes own moral judgments o sees and thinks how things really are o (Hitler) leading philosopher of age Norwerlleggeral womanizer lots of sex had to beat women off of him with cane Percy Bysshe Shelly war against oppression of lower class sickly kid picked on unconventional radical expelled from college married at 18 to Perry (who was 16) caused many public issues out casted by society loved to read believed power of eternal love cured all ills neoclassic Plutonic views physical representation of the ideal We must cling to hope no matter how bleak it looks

97 o Mutability Ozymandious England 1819 To a Skylark

John Keats mother, father, and brother all died of tuberculosis poor background easy to guess he will die young likes to imitate other authors but cant break away, so he stops reading other works altogether dies as 25 some poetry, towards his death, was dark/ominous overnight sensation king of like Lord Byron except he was a total unknown rare ability to find the wonder in objects of the exterior world 1819: miracle year supernova overflow of great/best works wrote tons, more than Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer combined like a match burned quickly, but brightly good at engaging all senses

98 William Blake artist engraver and painter o famous for art during lifetime, but poetry postmortem religious eccentric o saw visions since he was a child o extremely religious view of world, but scornful of organized religion and authority o created his own mythology based on Christian principles o hated authority Poet Radical o influenced by the enlightenment o emphasis on reason and intellectual freedom o support American and French Revolutions and witnessed the brutal aftermath Songs of Innocence and Experience o showing the 2 contrary states of the human soul o companion poems The Lamb and The Tyger Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow Holy Thursday and Holy Thursday o Holy Thursday characterize Innocence cheerful colorful angels radiance flowers joyful/mighty song harmonious How the poems work Perfect ideal

Experience misery poverty malnourished bleak and bare eternal winter trembling appall Songs of Innocence

reality

life

funnel than changes idealism into realism

Experiences

Songs of Experience