Romanticism
Romanticism
William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
Lyrical Ballads 1798
Lord Byron 1789-1824
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1812
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
John Keats 1795-1821
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
Waverly Novels
Mary Shelley 1797-1851
Frankenstein 1818
The Last Man 1826
Radicalism
1815
The Corn Laws
Lord Byron on the Corn Laws, 1815
Safe in their barns, these Sabine tillers sent
Their brethren out to battle--why? for rent!
Year after Year they voted cent. per cent.,
Blood, sweat and tear-wrung millions,--why? for rent!
They roar'd, they dined, they drank, they swore they meant
To die for England--why then live?--for rent!
The peace has made one general malcontent
Of these high market patriots; war was rent!
Their love of country, millions all misspent,
How reconcile? by reconciling rent!
And will they not repay the treasures lent?
No: down with everything, and up with rent!
Their good, ill, health, wealth, joy, or discontent,
Being, end, aim, religion--rent, rent, rent!
Peterloo Massacre 1819
The Six Acts 1819
* the Training Prevention Act (60 Geo III cap. 1)* the Seizure of Arms Act (60 Geo III cap. 2)
* the Seditious Meetings Act (60 Geo III cap. 6)
* the Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act (60 Geo III cap. 4)
* the Misdemeanours Act (60 Geo III cap. 8)
* the Newspaper Stamp Duties Act (60 Geo III cap. 9)
Shelley "England in 1819"
Shelley, Mask of Anarchy, 1819
Lord Castlereagh 1769-1822Lord Eldon 1751-1838
Lord Sidmouth 1757-1844
The Six Acts 1819
Conservatism
Religion
In what ways was romanticism radical?
In what ways was it conservative?
What were the major issues for political radicals after the end of the wars with France?
