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The Romantics



Looking into planning the Romantics in 2022

I'm torn between 2 months each on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly and Keats, and a more expansive one that ends with novels.


Potential Reading List

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

William Blake (1757-1827), 

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), 

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

Mary Alcock (c. 1742-1798)

George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824), 

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

John Keats (1795-1821)

Mary Robinson (1758-1800)

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)

Mary Shelly Frankenstein

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre



Guiding Links:

The Romantics by Stephanie Forward

Legacy

Intro to British Romanticism List of Romantic poets: 

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

John Clare

Leigh Hunt

Mary Robinson

Robert Southey

Sir Walter Scott

Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Dorothy Wordsworth

Walter Savage Landor

Thomas Chatterton

Charlotte Smith

Mary Lamb

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Robert Burns

Charles Lamb

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Charlotte Richardson

George Crabbe

Hannah More

Hartley Coleridge


I just read there are Russian Romantics: Lermontov, N.Gumilev, Yesenin. The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

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