Romantic Poetry
Romantic poetry gets written during a period of wars and of revolutions, a period of immense changes where human society reorganizes itself at every level.The Romantic period usually refers to the half century from about 1780-1830. It was a time when Britain underwent the first industrial revolution and so emerged with an economy more radically constructed than in Britain’s history. Therefore it brought about different work habits, different leisure patterns, different prospects and even different sex lives for most people. At the same time the French Revolution and the American War of Independence changed the way those countries were govern and made old certainties questionable and new possibilities feasible for everyone else. The cultural, political and economic structures were being laid down by three revolutions – The American, French and Industrial. The American revolution had started in 1776 when the thirteen colonies had declared their independence from Britain, and ended after seven years of war with British recognition of that independence in 1783. The fall of the Bastille in July 1789 is the moment when the French Revolution struck British consciousness. Coleridge was only 16
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Approximate Word count = 1670
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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