English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1103 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Revolution, War and Reform
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The idea
The Romantic era was shaped by the American, French and Industrial Revolutions. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake first hailed the French Revolution; Wordsworth wrote, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive." The Terror chastened them, and England answered with repression and war against Napoleon.
In practice
Hope, Terror, repression, war.
Where people slip
Early enthusiasm for France later cooled.
Your place on the trail
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