Romanticism Test English

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Blake

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his work received very little attention, he began his artistic training at ten, one purpose of his art was to change the way people see the world

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Coleridge

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was friends with Wordsworth, a true poet, he was very lonely, his great achievements occurred between 1800 and 1818

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Wordsworth

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1795 he reunited with his sister, who was his inspiration, after 1805, his poetry began to decline, Lyrical Ballads was the fruit of the friendship between him and Coleridge

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Shelley

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had many relationships with different women, in 1821 he published his elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais, drowned when her sailboat hit a storm off the coast of Italy

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Lord Byron

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assumed title when he was 10, had a difficult time with weight, died at 36, in 1812 he became a celebrity with his publications

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Keats

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: he died at age 25, so it is amazing that he became a major poet, his parents died when he was young, wrote many poems in 1819, couldnt marry due to his health and money problems

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Characteristics of the Romantic Age

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nature should be untamed, emphasis on inner feelings, imagination, spontaneity, unadorned language,idealism

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Background

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Romantic period began: 1798 due to the American, French, and Industrial Revolution; with the factories and machinery being put up in cities, the cities became dirty and industrialized