1800s Context

Important poets:

• Wordsworth

• Coleridge

• Keats

• Rossetti

• (1800s).

Pre Raphaelite era:

(1800s).

Reviving the spirit of medieval…

Art and Literature. (1800s).

More use of …

suggestive language (1800s).

Influential artists:

• Dante Rossetti.

• William Morris.

• (1800s).

Decadent movement:

• Sexual promiscuity.

• Embraced partying, sexuality and drugs.

• Hedonism.

• Subversion of morality.

• Escapism.

• (1800s).

Examples of poems:

• She walks in beauty (1814).

• La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819).

• Remember (1849).

• The ruined Maid (1866).

• Wild nights, Wild nights (1891).

• At an inn (1898).