Romantic poetry and prose
8. A Defence of Poetry by Shelley: Main ideas: poetry brings about moral good, exercises and expands the
imagination, and the imagination is the source of sympathy, compassion, and love, which rest on the ability to project
oneself into the position of another person.
9. Novel in the Romantic era: main genres: essays, pamphlets, novels.
Main ideas and writers: 1) Attack and defence of poetry (Love Peacock vs. Shelley) William Hazlit.
2) Politics: utilitarianism, urbanism, socialism, and anarchy Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, and
William Godwin.
3) Quest for national style: the rise of the historical and gothic novels Sir Walter Scott, Horace Walpole.
4) Women writers and feminist ides: the rise of literacy amongst women, equality ideas Jane Austen, Mary Hays.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist and poet; wrote: ballads, narrative poetry, and verse tales,
novels
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