The Romantic Period by allisoncroley using TimeMapper

April 11, 1759

William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".

July 4, 1770

William Wordsworth

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

September 10, 1773

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson, and American transcendentalism.

1780

Gordon Riots

The Gordon Riots of 1780 began as an anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. The protest evolved into riots and looting.

 
July 4, 1770
William Wordsworth

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gordon Riots

Poetical Sketches

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Storming of Bastille (beginning of French Revolution)

September Massacre

Percy Shelley

Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France declares war on Britain.

Trials for high treason within the London Corresponding Society.

John Keats

Lyrical Ballads

Rebellion in Ireland

"Ozymandias"

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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