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Revolutionary and Napoleonic period in France

Revolution in France begins

storming of the Bastille

• King Louis XVI executed
• England joins the alliance against france

The Reign of Terror under Robespierre

Napoleon Crowned emperor

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

British slave trade outlawed (slavery abolished throughout the empire, including the west indies, twenty-six years)

The regency- George, Prince of Wales, acts as regent for George III, who had been declared incurably insane

Peterloo Massacre

Accession of George IV

Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld) Poems

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. and Jean Jaques rousseau, Confessions
• J. C> Friedrich Schiller, The robbers

William Blake, Songs of Innocence

• Joanna Bailie, Poems
• Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the revolution in France

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

Execution of Louis XVI and marie Antoinette, France declares war against Britain, The Reign of Terror

Marry Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

William blake, Songs of Experience

• Joanna Bailie, Plays on the passions
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical ballads

Wordsworth, Poems in two volumes

• Lord Byron, Childe harold's Pilgrimage
• Hemans, The Domestic Affections

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Wordsworth, the excursion

• Byron, Childe Harold
• Coleridge, Christabel, "kubla Khan"
• Percy Shelley, Alastor

• Byron, manfred
• Coleridge biographis Literaria and Sibylline leaves
• John Keats, Poems

Mary Shelley, Frankensein

• John Clare, poems Descriptive of rural Life,
• Keats, Lamia, isabella, the eve of st agnes and other poems
• Percy Shelley, prometheus unbound

Percy Shelley: adonais

First Reform Bill

"From Reflections on the Revolution in France"

"From Rights of Man"

• "The Rights of Woman"
• "Washing Day"

• "the chimney sweeper"
• "London"

"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

• "A Winter's Day"
• "A Monther to Her Waking Infant"

• "We are Seven"
• "Lines Composed a Few miles above tintern Abbey"
• "Michael"
• "Ode Imitations of Immortality"
• "London"

• "The rime of the ancient Mariner"
• "Kubla Khan"
• excerpts from Biographis Literaria

• "She Walks in Beauty"
• "So we'll go no more a rowing"

• "Mont Blanc"
• "A Song: Men of England"

• "On Sitting down to read King Lear once again"
• "when i have fears that i may cease to be"
• "La belle dame Sans Merci: A ballad"
• "To Autumn"

Frankenstein

• "Casabianca"
• "The Homes of England"

Love and Friendship "plan of a novel"

John Keats used the term negative capability to describe the artist as one who is receptive to the world and its natural phenomena, and to reject those who tried to formulate theories or categorise knowledge. In a letter to his brothers, George and Thomas Keats, on December 21, 1817 he employed negative capability to criticise Coleridge, whom he thought sought knowledge over beauty: