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1
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When was King of France killed

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1723

2
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40 years before killing of king - how was the world set

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Based on authority and hierarchy, only nobility and clergy had personal liberty. Everyone had duties not right

At heart of the new order was Paris. Paris police force was biggest. Those undesirable to state would disappear

3
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Who began romantic movement

Explain

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1742
Diderot (future built on reason)
Roussou (believed in feeling to exist)

Both preached freedom and liberty for individual
DANGEROUS

1749- Diderot arrested for writing an Encyclopaedia in which there was no place for the existence of God - questioned God

Roussea went to visit him in cell
And came up with concept
“Man was born free yet everyone he is in chains”

Roussea experiences inspiration for romantics
Emotion could unlock prison of society
Roussea called for end of civilisation
Later forced out of France

4
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Thomas Paine

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1774 young English idealist arrived to America after infortune in Europe

Wife died in Europe and bankruptcy

Reacted strongly and violently by taxes of English rulers

Paine wrote pamphlet called ‘common sense’- attacked monarchy

Publication of common sense led to american independence 1776

ALL MEN ARE EWUAL TO LIFE LIBERTY AND PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS

5
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Did Blake have many readers to begin with

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No

6
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Who did Wordsworth fall in love with

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French girl

7
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What was Wordsworths thoughts towards the France revolution etc

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Threat of foreign invasion and French Royalist led to blood shed

Priests and nun slaughtered for refusing Republican Oath

Wordsworth was sad by this

8
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Why did Wordsworth go home leaving his wife

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Dangerous for British living in France and France living in Britain

He head home leaving family behind

Revolutionary authorities seized his wife’s letters to him

Wordsworth became a wondered- revolutionary act

9
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Wordsworth met coleridge :

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Bond to last a lifetime

Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote poems - define romantic age

Wordsworth and Coleridge both wrote lyrical ballads

They didn’t put name on it when first published 1798- were proclaiming new poetic faith- beyond individual authorship

10
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John Clare

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Son of agricultural labourer

Loved freedom of natural world

Missing for a day and evening

Parents afraid he was dead

Grew up to be a poet

Late 18t an 19th century - enclosure agreements - common land fenced off

Barriers

Clare could no longer wonder

24 lunatic asylum

11
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Mount Tambora

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1815

Most powerful volcanic eruption in history - retaliate by those who tried to tame and control nature

Bryan wrote about itin ‘darkness’

12
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Mary Shelley

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As a girl - heard of experiments with electricity

Led to Frankenstein - prophecy that science may be misused by those who want to tamper with nature - novels frightful horror - dark reflectio of romantics sublime

Message powerful - respect nature - power to destroy

13
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1811

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Oxford
Anonymous pamphlets to heads of colleges and bishops

Entitled: the necessity of atheism

W out proof of God - nonsense to believe him

Blasphemy

Pearce Shelley wrote it

Expelled from uni

Tired of his wife - met another woman - Mary - took her virginity on grave on her mum where they met

1814- Shelley waiting - 2 women - Mary and her step sister running away w him - violating social conventions. Pioneering notion of free love

14
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Lord Byron

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1812- prepared poem for publication

Romantic

Famous

Sexual scandals

1816 wife wanted divorce

London rumours

Alleged sexual relations with half sister

Publically accused of homosexuality

15
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Keats

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Believed genius of poet - ordinary self

Imagine himself in 1000 diff lives

Byron hated his poetry - mental masterbarion

8 years old - dad died
Mum and brother does by time 23
Turburculosis - he would die. No allegiance to god (New Romantics)

Feared after death he would be forgotten

16
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Romantics on anatomy

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Anatomists looked at body for secrets of life

Chartered every vein body archery

Reduced human form to components of machine

For romantics - useless

They believed spirit - eternal power - it could a

17
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Keats and anatomy

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1815 Keats attended anatomy session in London

W out anasthetic

Seeing one patient in pain w out anasthetic - pain became his

Discovered empathy

Wanted to heal through his words and unloaded

Keats and new generation of romantics studied human souls

Wanted to answer - true nature of life and explain purpose on earth

18
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How was coleridges son

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Born premature

19
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Songs of innocence

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Childhood year by brother

20
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London

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Chimney sweepers

4-7 boys sold to clean chimneys

21
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Chartering

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18th century process of corporate ownership effectively transferring public land to private hands

Supporters of chartering claimed it gave people rights over land

Those against claimed it took rights away from the many in order to give them to few