Modern english periods Flashcards
TO know the major time periods, authors and works of modern english writers
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Romanticism
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Began in the 18th and 19th centuries(1700’s-1800’s) in England and Germany. does not have to do with love, but with an idealic viewpoint and celebration of nature and life.
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Who were well known Romantic era authors
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William Wordsworth (poet beginning of romantic era), Lord Byron( don Juan), Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo, Mary Shelly, Henry david Thoreau (Walden and civil disobedience) Edgar allen poe
