English Romantic Poetry
The Romantic Period in England spans the decades of the 1780’s through the 1830’s. It was theage of revolutions– a span of time that saw not only the rapid industrialization of Europe but two significant national revolutions – one in France and one in America. This revolutionary spirit in many ways fed and sustained the Romantic Movement in English literature; its chief practitioners believed that poetry could literally transform the world and the way in which we understand it. In this course...