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ROMANTIC WRITERS

The Romantic Movement 1770-1848

In Europe

• Gottfried August Bürger (1749-1794)
  • Lenore' long poem (1774)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
  • Faust: Part I (1808)
  • Faust: Part II (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)
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Women
• Robert Burns (1759-1796)
• Anne Ward Radcliffe (1764-1823)
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
• Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
• Jane Austen (1775-1817)
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • Mansfield Park (1814)
  • Emma (1814-1815)
  • Persuasion (1815-1816)
• Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
  • Confessions of an Opium-Eater (1821)
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
  • Frankenstein
    
    • Epistolary Novel
    • Galvanism
    • People of Frankenstein

Poets

• First Generation
  • William Blake (1757-1827)
    • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• Second Generation
  • Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
    • Manfred (1816)
    • Don Juan (1821)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
  • John Keats (1795-1821)
    

Transcendentalism (American) (1836-1892)

Writers

• Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
  • Orphic Sayings (1840-42)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
  • Nature (1836)
  • The American Scholar (1837)
  • Self-Reliance (1841)
• Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
  • Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
  • Civil Disobedience (1849)
  • Walden (1854)
  • Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  • Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
  • Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850)
  • The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
  • The Blithedale Romance (1852)
  • The Marble Faun (1860)

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
    • Dickinson Academic Links
• 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
    • Leaves of Grass (1892)

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