ENGL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: September Massacres, Lyrical Ballads, Age Of Enlightenment

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14 Jun 2018

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Lit and Perf

Week 4 Lecture 1

Romantic Poetry

Wordsworth and Coleridge

- Major names in romantic poetry

- Focus of this course

- Others – Keats, Shelley, Byron

- Poets were all different – not homogenous

Romantic Period

- Largest artistic movement of the ’s

- Beginnings difficult to discern – aroud late ’s

- Lasted into 19thC

- Still felt today

Rise of Romantic Poetry

• 1776 – revolution – US – colonies rise

• 1783 – conclude peace in Paris

• 1788 – AUS becomes new British dumping ground

• 3rd estate – represents people – breaks away to form national assembly

• Bastille – liberation of prisoners 1789 – symbolic attack

• Lettre de cache – no grounds needed for imprisonment, just a royal signature –

associated with aspects of monarchal tyranny

• Symbol of absolutism of French monarchy

• Writers – apocalyptic in tone

• Period of violence followed by equality and paradise

• Blake and Wordsworth – establishing Heaven on Earth

• Bor i ’s, youg e he Bastille ourred

• Paradoxical age – slavery vs liberation

• Loudest yells for lierty oe fro slae driers

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