An Introduction to the Romantics
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An Introduction to the Romantics
King George III
The Prince Regent, later King George IV
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England: One of the Prince Regent’s Palaces
A caricature of King George IV by George Cruikshank
A modern caricature of the Prince Regent, from Blackadder, played by Hugh Laurie
England’s agricultural landscape after the Enclosure Acts
Industrialized Britain, Manchester, mid-1800s
The Picturesque, as described by William Gilpin
The paintings of Claude Lorrain served as a model for aestheticizing the English landscape.
William Blake
Blake’s The Ancient of Days
Blake’s illustration for Dante’s Inferno
A close reading exercise
LondonI wander thro' each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,In every Infants cry of fear,In every voice: in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cryEvery blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sighRuns in blood down Palace walls
But most thro' midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlots curseBlasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
William Wordsworth
The Lake District