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The Romantic Period Introduction Romantic Poets William Wordsworth S.T. Coleridge G.G. Byron P.B. Shelley John Keats Introduction to the Backgrounds Economically: the great Industrial Revolution Continued fast changes took place both in the country and in the cities; Many farmhands driven out of land rushed into the city; Women and children were employed as cheap labor; New machines were set up, rendering many out of work; Disparity(两极分化) was growing between the rich and the poor; Expansion abroad continued: ( America), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the West Indies and other nations. Politically Ideologically Politically： The most important event is the French Revolution (1789), which at first gave British people great hope for a better future with rights and independence for all men but later brought them despair and nightmare. The workers, peasants and the lower classes hope to realize “liberty, equality, and fraternity (自由，平等，博爱）  Ideologically： The principle of Ration was giving way to an individualized, free, liberal, imaginative attitude towards life; a tendency to turn or escape from the tumultuous and confusing Here and Now Introduction to English Romanticism Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England early in the latter half of the 18th century. English Romanticism begins in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s The Lyrical Ballads and ends in 1832 with Walter Scott’s death. The eighteenth century was distinctively an age of prose. The Age of Wordsworth was decidedly an age of poetry. Literature Literature Prose familiar essays of journals and newspaperse.g. Charles Lamb, Lee Hunt, de Quincey literary criticism/reviews as authority Charles Lamb, Lee Hunt, de Quincey novelistse.g. Jane Austen, the realist and Walter Scott, the 1 st historical novelist/romantic poet  Poetry: the Age of (Romantic) Poetry Differences between 18 th-century and 19 th-century ( between Neoclassicism and Romantici