The Romantic Period

1789-99

French Revolution (King Louis XVI executed 1793)

1789

Blake’s Songs of Innocence

1790

Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

1792

Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1794

Blake’s Songs of Experience

1798

Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (expanded Preface included in third edition of 1802)

1807

British slave trade outlawed

1811-20

Regency Period (George, Prince of Wales, acts as regent for the insane George III)

1815

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

1818

Austen’s Persuasion published posthumously

1819

“Peterloo” Massacre (What was it?  Why was it called “Peterloo”?)

1820-30

George IV rules

1819-20

Keats’s poems written

1821

Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry”