Brit Lit E1

Poet who changed Romantic period

William woodsworth

6 odes

John Keats

Political side

Percy Shelly

Most famous novelist

Jane Austen

Artist engraver

Blake

Wrote songs of innocence & experience

William Blake

Wrote christabel

Coleridge

wrote lady Susan

Jane Austen

Songs to men in England

Shelley

Wrote epistle to Augusta

Byron

Negative capability

Keats

Spontaneous overflow of feelings

WW

Lyric Ballads

WW

Unacknowledged Legislators of the World

Keats

Most known for his promiscuity

Byron

French Revolution

liberty, equality, and fraternity. It deeply influenced Romantic writers, who reacted both with hope for political freedom

Slavery & its abolition

Romantic writers often used emotional appeals and moral arguments to condemn slavery, emphasizing shared humanity and suffering.

Gothic lit

emphasized mystery, terror, the supernatural, and psychological distress.

Byronic hero

brooding, rebellious, morally conflicted figure who defies social norms. He is charismatic but isolated, often driven by guilt or a troubled past

Woman & society

faced legal and social restrictions, especially regarding marriage and property. Many women writers critiqued these limitations through fiction and poetry

Romantic period

1789–1837) emphasized emotion, imagination, nature, and individual experience over reason and tradition. Included the big 6

Lyrical ballads

used everyday language instead of elevated poetic diction. It focused on ordinary people

Christabel

darkness, silence, and Geraldine’s mysterious behavior create unease

Example of political work by Shelley

Songs to men in England