English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1201 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Second Generation
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The idea
The second generation of Romantic poets, Byron, Shelley and Keats, were younger than Wordsworth and Coleridge, more radical or more sensuous, and all died young and abroad in the eighteen twenties. Their deaths, the anchor notes, mark the end of the Romantic period.
In practice
Byron, Shelley, Keats.
Where people slip
All three died before Wordsworth.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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