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15 mag 2024 · The poem is an impassioned plea for reform and a scathing indictment of the current political and social milieu. A classic of Romantic literature, “England in 1819” captures the spirit of revolution and resistance with its melancholy tone, tragic undertones, and breathtaking imagery.
15 mag 2024 · In a passionate appeal, the speaker implores the west wind to imbue him with its unrestrained energy and deliver him from the despondency that has consumed him, most likely caused by the loss of his son William in 1819.
23 mag 2024 · Peterloo Massacre, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819. The “massacre” (likened to Waterloo) attests to the profound fears of the privileged classes of the imminence of violent Jacobin revolution in England in the years after the ...
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1 giu 2024 · View of the Southgate at Exeter, taken down in 1819. Various improvements, by which the streets of Exeter have been widened, and the avenues to the city opened, have taken place since 1768. For this purpose the Northgate was taken down in 1769; the great conduit at the Carfoix in 1770; the Eastgate in 1784; and the Southgate in 1819.
15 mag 2024 · Shelley wrote the heavenly poem “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” in the midst of a time of enormous social and political instability in England. In 1816, just after the Napoleonic Wars had ended and the monarchy had been restored, it was first published, and England was still struggling to overcome a number of serious social and ...
6 giorni fa · In 1820 it was reported to have been 'very respectably and numerously attended'; three years later York was considered 'the greatest regular leather market in England, London and Bristol excepted'.
6 giorni fa · This course concentrates mainly on the relationship between the aesthetic category of the sublime and the political climate of fear created by the Reign of Terror in France in the mid-1790s and intensified by the revolutionary wars in Europe.
