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The romantic period



             b. Wrote "Memoirs- and "Captivity, a Poem-.
             II. Revolution and Recreation.
             A. A Turbulent Period.
             1. The romantic period is the span between 1785 when Samuel Johnson died and Blake and Burns published their first poems .
             a. By 1830, the major writers of last century were dead or no longer productive.
             2. England experienced change from an agricultural society to a modern industrial nation.
             3. Three important books illustrated radical social thinking embraced by the revolution.
             a. Tom Paine's "Rights of Men-.
             b. Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Men-.
             c. Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France-.
             4. This was the time economic and social changes were creating a desperate need for corresponding changes in political arrangements and new classes- manufacturing instead of agricultural .
             5. In 1812, a bill was passed making death the penalty for destroying the frames used in weaving.
             6. In 1815, the French Revolution ended, and the enlargement of the working force coincided with the fall in the war time demand for goods, brought on the first modern industrial depression.
             7. Percy Shelly wrote his poems for the working class.
             a. "England- .
             b. "Tosidmouth and Castlereagh-.
             c. "A Song: "Men of England-.
             8. This was the first era in British Literature in which women writers began to rival men in their numbers, success in sales, literary reputations and poets, and social commentators.
             B. The "Spirit of the Age-.
             9. Writers in this time did not think of themselves as Romantic, the word was applied half a century later by English historians.
             10. Many writers did feel there was something distinctive about their time, which some called "the spirit of the age-.
             11. The Revolution generated a feeling that this was an age of new beginnings.
             C. Millennial Expectations.
             1. The French revolution had aroused in many sympathizers the millennial expectations that are rooted in Hebrew and Christian tradition. The bible ends with the book of Revelation prophesying a return of human beings to their lost Edenic felicity in their millennium of an earthly kingdom and in the eternity of "a new heaven and a new earth-.


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