The Romantic Period

Presented by, Yash, Ginni, Devanshi, Kavish, Rudranshi

 Introduction
The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and
lasted until 1837. The political and economic
atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period,
with many writers finding inspiration from the French
Revolution. There was a lot of social change during this
period.
 The Start Of
Romanticism
Robert Burns is considered the pioneer of the Romantic
Movement. Although his death in 1796 precedes what
many consider the start of Romanticism, his lyricism and
sincerity mark him as an early Romantic writer. His most
notable works are “Auld Lang Syne” (1788) and “Tam o’
Shanter” (1791). Burns inspired many of the writers
during the Romantic Period.
 Early Poets of
Romanticism
1. Robert Burns is considered the pioneer
of the Romantic Movement. Although
his death in 1796 precedes what many
consider the start of Romanticism, his
lyricism and sincerity mark him as an
early Romantic writer. His most notable
works are “Auld Lang Syne” (1788) and
“Tam o’ Shanter” (1791). Burns
inspired many of the writers during the
Romantic Period.
William Blake was one of the earliest
2. Romantic Period writers. Blake believed
in spiritual and political freedom and
often wrote about these themes in his
works. Although some of his poetry
was published before the official start
to the era, Blake can be seen as one of
the founders of this movement. His
works, Songs of Innocence (1789) and
Songs of Experience (1794), are two of
his most significant.
Poets

There were many poets in the Romantic

Period:
 Poets
1. William Wordsworth 2. John Keats (1795-1821)
(1770-1850)

3. Lord Byron (1788-1824) 4. Anna Laetitia Barbauld

1743–1825
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an
English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English
literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads
(1798).

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to

be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his
early years that he revised and expanded a number of
times. It was posthumously titled and published by his
wife in the year of his death, before which it was
generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".

Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his

death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.
 John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was
an English poet of the second generation of Romantic
poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe
Shelley.He was known for his vivid imagery and great
sensual appeal. His poems had been in publication for
less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the
age of 25. They were indifferently received in his
lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.[1] By
the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of
English literature, strongly influencing many writers of
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia
Britannica of 1888 called one ode "one of the final
masterpieces".
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 –
19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. He is one of the
major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded
as being among the greatest of English poets. Among his
best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; much of his shorter lyrics in
Hebrew Melodies also became popular. Byron was
educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, before he travelled
extensively across Europe to such places as Italy, where he
lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he
was forced to flee England due to threats of lynching.
During his stay in Italy, he would frequently visit his friend
and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life, Byron
joined the Greek War of Independence to fight the
Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a folk
hero. He died leading a campaign in 1824, at the age of 36,
from a fever contracted after the first and second sieges of
Missolonghi.
Anna Laetitia
Barbauld
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, by herself possibly, as in French,
20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825 was a prominent English
poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of
children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue
Stockings Society and a "woman of letters" who
published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful
writing career that spanned more than half a century.
She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and
an innovative writer of works for children. Her primers
provided a model for more than a century. Her essays
showed it was possible for a woman to be engaged in
the public sphere; other women authors such as
Elizabeth Benger emulated her. Barbauld's literary
career spanned numerous periods in British literary
history: her work promoted the values of the
enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made
a founding contribution to the development of British
Romanticism. Barbauld was also a literary critic. Her
anthology of 18th-century novels helped to establish the
canon as it is known today.
 Women Have Arrived!
The Romantic Period saw more successful women writers, a precursor to their
popularity in the Victorian era. The most significant female writer during this
period was Jane Austen. Writing toward the end of the period, Austen did not
always adhere to the strict Romantic Period guidelines and mocked some of the
more extravagant plots of previous writers. Instead, Austen chose to highlight
the everyday lives of average people, making a turn toward social realism. Her
novels include relatable heroines with adventures that the ordinary reader
would likely encounter. She was also able to better depict the lives of women in
this way. She understood that women had very little class mobility at the time
and used many of her novels as a way to show this. Some of her famous novels
include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park
(1814), Emma (1815), and Northanger Abbey (1817).
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