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• Romantic Era - romantic poets


  when poets romanticized and glorified war

  poets were intellectual leaders or influencers, heroes, wanders, thinkers

  they were extremely anti-authoritarian

  romanticized the French revolution - where the people killed the royal family

  romanticized the poor and oppressed

  often wrote about nature and the perfection of a simple life - rural setting or childhood
• Romantic era - General life in GB 


  its people were angry

  citizens wanted a new Parliament to get rid of landowners and the rich who kept making laws to keep the rich and powerful

  they wanted cheaper food

  wanted fairer wages

  wanted reassurance their jobs wouldn't be taken over by machines

  wanted lower taxes - less money spent on wars

  wanted less peers ( eg dukes, duchesses), as it seemed they were living privileged lives
• Romantic era - key dates


  Seven Year War - 1756-63 - GB vs France - expensive

  Napoleonic War - 1799-1815 - costly, taxes were raised for war, GB=famine+unemployment, Factory owners cut wages and blamed it on the wars

  Corn Law - 1815 - high prices and blocks were put on foreign grain, rich got richer, poor people's food cost more
• Romatic Era - Key Dates

  Suffrage - 1819- the poor didn't have a right to vote, had to earn a certain amount of money to vote

  Peterloo Massacre - 1819 - groups of working class gathered in Manchester to demand Parliament to be reformed and everyone to have the rights to vote - they were all killed

  Luddites - 1817 - english workers smashed machinery as they thought their jobs would be lost
• Romantic Era - Monarchs


  King George III - 1760-1820 - stepped down due to mental illness

  King George IV -1820-1830 - spent loads of money on coronation

  William IV - 1837-pro-slavery when others were anti, gave his many children titles, money and privileges

  Queen Victoria - 1837-1901 - famous for colonisation, traded/robbed places like India, Africa, the Caribbean