romantic writers
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- neo-Gothic architecture
- the revival of medieval Gothic architecture left European countrysides adorned with pseudo-medieval castles and cities with grand neo-Gothic buildings, example is Britain's House of Parliament
- Lord Byron
- dramaticized himself as a Romantic hero in his "Childe Harold's Pigrimage"
- Mary Shelley
- wrote "Frankenstein" which was a criticism of man controlling nature, "Gothic literature"
- Thomas Carlyle
- British writer, stressed that historical events were determined by the deeds of heroes that transformed society
- Alexander Dumas
- wrote "The Three Musketeers" which criticized Louis XIV
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", loved water
- English Romanticism
- anti Industrialization
- Grimm Brothers
- collected and published local German fairy tales, work is example of Romantic German nationalism
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- one of the greatest figures of Western literature, wrote "The Sorrows of the Young Werther" , focused on the heroic genius that succeeds in spite of society, wrote "Faust" which was the first work to portray the Devil as the gentleman Mephistopheles
- Victor Hugo
- wrote "Les Miserables" which criticized the French Revolution
- Romantic era
- about 1815 to 1848, reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment, YOUR interpretations, religious nature, UNIQUE individual
- William Wordworth
- English poet,NATURE, co wrote "Lyrical Ballads" that icluded a manifesto for the "new poetry" and began Romantic age in poetry
- Edgar Allan Poe
- writer of "Gothic literature", examples of his work are "The Raven," "Tell Tale Heart," etc