English Romantic Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats.
Timeline of English Romantic Poets: Based on Lectures by Willard Spiegelman
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- 1757
- Birth of
William Blake.
- 1770
- Birth of
William Wordsworth.
- 1772
- Birth of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- 1788
- Birth of
George Gordon Byron.
-
William Blake
develops a new printing technique for illuminated manuscript
which he uses to print his own work.
- 1789
- French Revolution.
- William Blake's
Songs of Innocence.
- 1790
-
William Wordsworth
travels to France.
- (To 1793) William Blake's
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
- 1791
-
William Wordsworth
again travels to France.
On one of these trips he fathers a child by Annette Vallon.
- 1792
- Birth of
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- 1794
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
leaves Cambridge University without a degree;
meets Robert Southey.
- William Blake's
Songs of Experience.
- 1795
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
lectures on religion and politics.
- First meeting of
William Wordsworth
and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
marries Sarah Fricker.
- Birth of
John Keats.
- 1798
- Lyrical Ballads
co-authored by
William Wordsworth
and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
writes
"Ancient Mariner" (in Lyrical Ballads),
"Christabel" (Part I), and possibly
"Kubla Khan".
-
William Wordsworth
begins The Prelude.
- (To 1799)
William Wordsworth
and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
each in Germany.
- 1799
- First tour of the English Lake District by
William Wordsworth
and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
together.
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
meets Sara Hutchinson.
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
writes
"Dejection: an Ode".
- 1802
-
William Wordsworth
marries Mary Hutchinson.
- 1803
- Scottish tour by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
with
William Wordsworth
and Dorothy Wordsworth.
- (To 1815)
War between England and France.
- 1804
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
goes to Malta as Acting Public Secretary till 1806.
- 1805
-
William Wordsworth
completed the bulk of The Prelude.
- 1808
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
lectures on literature at the Royal Institution.
- 1809
-
George Gordon Byron
begins his 2-year tour of Continental Europe.
- William Blake's
exhibition:
Descriptive Catalogue.
- 1810
- October: rupture between
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and
William Wordsworth.
- 1811
-
George Gordon Byron
ends his 2-year tour of Continental Europe,
returning to Britain to assume his set in the House of Lords.
-
Percy Bysshe Shelley
elopes with Harriet Westbrook.
- 1812
-
George Gordon Byron
publishes the first two cantos of
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,
and thereby became famous.
- 1814
-
Percy Bysshe Shelley
abandons his pregnant wife (Harriet Westbrook, who shortly after commits suicide)
to elope with Mary Wollstonecraft.
- 1815
-
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo.
The peace with France makes travel easier for the English to continental Europe.
George Gordon Byron
marries Annabella Milbanke,
mother of his daughter Augusta Ada.
-
John Keats
begins his medical studies in London.
-
John Keats'
first volume of poems published;
reviewed negatively by conservative Tory reviewers.
- 1816
- Annabella Milbanke leaves
George Gordon Byron,
who leaves England permanently.
- Endymion by
John Keats
published.
- "Christabel" by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published.
- Shelley
in Switzerland writes
"The Hymn to Intellectual [spiritual] Beauty"
and
"Mont Blanc".
- 1817
- Shelley writes
"Ozymandias".
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge's
Biographia Literaria.
- 1818
- Start of
John Keats'
miraculous year in which (through the autumn of 1819)
he composed
- his greatest odes
- his narratives
"The Eve of Saint Agnes" and
"Lamia";.
- two incomplete versions of an epic
"Hyperion".
-
John Keats
catches a cold in Scotland; evantually develops tuberculosis.
-
John Keats
younger brother, Tom, dies of tuberculosis in December.
-
Percy Bysshe Shelley
returns permanently to continental Europe.
-
Byron writes
first Canto of his Don Juan: A Comic Masterpiece.
- 1819
-
John Keats's great poem:
"To Autumn".
-
Peterloo Massacre (16 August): quickly this was interpreted by progressives as repressive tyranny within England.
- 1820
-
John Keats's
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems.
-
John Keats
sails to Italy, at the suggestion of
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- 1821
- Death of
John Keats
in Rome.
- (To 1827)
Greek War of Independence from Turkey.
- 1822
- Death of
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
by drowning off the west coast of Italy in a storm.
- 1823
- George Gordon Byron
sails to Greece.
- 1824
- Death of
George Gordon Byron,
in Greece where he is preparing to fight in the war of Greek Independence.
- 1827
- Death of
William Blake.
- 1834
- Publication of third edition of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's
Poetical Works.
- Death of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- 1842
-
William Wordsworth
named
Poet Laureate (following the death of Robert Southey).
- 1850
- Death of
William Wordsworth.
- Posthumous publication of
William Wordsworth's
The Prelude.
English Romantic Poets: Lectures by Willard Spiegelman
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