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to this item: |Title: ||ENGL 350-01, Romantic Connections, Fall
2005| |Authors: ||Newman, Rebecca E.| |Date Issued:
||29-Aug-2005| |Publisher: ||Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College|
|Series/Report no.: ||Syllabi CRN;| |Abstract: ||In 1815 an
empire is defeated. In 1793 a country executes its leader. In
1821 a young man dies in a Roman apartment. In 1800 a city’s
people number over a million. In 1819 an army fires upon a
peaceful crowd. And in 1798 two men publish a collection of
poetry. What is it that connects all these events? For some
students of English literature, the answer may seem obvious. In
literary terms, these moments have become landmarks in the
historical definition of British ‘Romantic’ culture. As concrete
events, they provide a backdrop to the enormously rich seam of
writing that runs through the end of the eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. William Wordsworth l