British Lit. II
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- Scottish drunk, folk poems, (romantic)
- Robert Burns
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"To a Mouse"
"To a Louse" - Burns
- A Red, Red Rose
- Burns
- Auld Lang Syne
- Burns
- The Fornicator: a new song
- Burns
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had an affair with prince of wales, poetry of passion, revival of sonnet,
popular in literary and social circles (wordsworth) - Mary Robinson
- "January, 1795"
- Mary Robinson
- "Sappho and Phaon Sonnets"
- Mary Robinson
- "The Haunted Beach"
- Mary Robinson
- "London's Summer Morning"
- Mary Robinson
- doesn't use rhetorical flourishes in fear of being emotional, men and women perpetuate stereotypes, men and women should use equal form
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- A Vindication for the Rights of Women
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- real starter of the romantics, lyrical ballads begins romantic era, huge focus on nature, "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings", "emotion recollected in tranquility"
- William Wordsworth
- "Simon Lee"
- Wordsworth
- "We are Seven"
- Wordsworth
- "Lines written a few miles above tintern abbey"
- wordsworth
- lived in wordsworth's shadow, greater focus on supernatural, used opium, focus on nature and truth in it.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- This Lime Tree Bower my Prison
- Coleridge
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Coleridge
- Kubla Khan
- Coleridge
- Frost at Midnight
- Coleridge
- Dejection: an ode
- Coleridge (pathetic fallacy)
- pathetic fallacy
- what's going on emotionally is inflicted by the environment (coleridge)
- Biographia Literaria
- Coleridge
- extravagante, egocentric, flamboyent, died young, second wave of romanticism, held celebrity status, created heroes that could be seen as him, started vampire trend
- Lord Byron (George Gordon)
- "She walks in beauty"
- Lord Byron
- So We'll go no more a-roving
- Lord Byron
- Manfred
- Lord Byron
- friends with Lord Byron, classically trained, independently wealthy, second wave of romantics
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Hymn to an Intellectual Beauty
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ozymandias
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode to the West Wind
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- To a Sky-lark
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Cloud
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- focus on female historical figures
- Felicia Hemans
- "The Wife of Asdrubal"
- Felicia Hemans
- "Indian Woman's Death Song"
- Felicia Hemans
- died young at 26, response to art and nature, champions the innocence and youth of romanticism, new criticism
- John Keats
- On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
- Keats
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- Keats
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Keats
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Keats
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Keats
- Letter to George and Thomas Keats
- Keats
- the idea that history doesn't just happen randomly; we are getting better and better and progressing (tennyson) a very victorian way of thinking
- telos
- "dombey and son"
- dickens
- "hard times"
- dickens
- "condition of the working class in england"
- engels
- "London Labour and London Poor"
- Henry Mayhew
- very popular and public figure, wrote for a long period of time, spokesperson for his age, usually not the poet speaking but a historical figure
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Mariana
- Tennyson
- Lady of Shalott
- Tennyson
- The Lotos-Eaters
- Tennyson
- Ulysses
- Tennyson (dramatic monologue)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Tennyson
- Crossing the Bar
- Tennyson
- Locksley Hall
- Tennyson
- correspondant of Dickens, published "household words," many novels set in industrial north concerning women's rights, treatment of factory workers, etc.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Our Society at Cranford
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- A Scandal in Bohemia
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dover Beach
- Arnold
- The Blessed Damozel
- Rosetti
- An Artist's Studio
- Rosetti
- wrote as someone else, all are dramatic monologues, does not express his own views, but characters
- Robert Browning
- Porphyria's Lover
- Browning
- My Last Duchess
- Robert Browning
- Soliloquey of the Spanish Cloister
- Browning
- The Bishop orders his tomb at St. Praxed's Church
- Browning
- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
- Browning