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ROMANTIC WRITERS
The Romantic Movement 1770-1848
In Europe
- Gottfried August Bürger (1749-1794)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
- Uber naive und sentimentalische Dichtung (1795)
In Britain
Writers
- William Godwin (1756-1836)
- An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- Anne Ward Radcliffe (1764-1823)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Poets
- First Generation
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Second Generation
- Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- John Keats (1795-1821)
Transcendentalism (American) (1836-1892)
Writers
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Poets
- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- tyle of verse was shaped by very homely influences: from the "common meter" of hymn books to the valentines and memorial verses for the dead that were popular with Amherst residents
- Challenged poetic conventions of syntax and punctuation
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- Challenged poetic conventions with radically personal and informal lyrics
- Organic in form, composed of free verse of widely varying line lengths
- Discusses subject matters deemed highly taboo at the time, such as sex
- Incorporated the common people and common diction within his poetry
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