English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1238 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romantic Hellenism
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The idea
The second generation turned repeatedly to Greece. Keats celebrated Chapman's Homer and a Grecian urn; Shelley rewrote Aeschylus in Prometheus Unbound; and Byron, a philhellene, died supporting Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, a cause Shelley also championed.
In practice
Homer, the urn, Prometheus, Missolonghi.
Where people slip
Greece meant art and liberty.
Your place on the trail
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