Romantic Poetry
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gets written during a period of wars and of revolutions, a period of immense changes where human society reorganizes itself at every level.
The Romantic period usually refers to the half century from about 1780-1830. It was a time when Britain underwent the first industrial revolution and so emerg ....
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.... ended after seven years of war with
British recognition of that independence in 1783.
The fall of the Bastille in July 1789 is the moment when the French Revolution struck British consciousness. Coleridge was only 16 at the time and celebrated the event soon afterwards in ‘Destruction of the Bastille’. Soon followed in successive events was Britain’s war with France beginning in 1793, The Reign of Terror in 1793-4 and Napoleon’s coup in 1799.
The impact for the f ....
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