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Writers of the Romantic Period (1785-1830)
Literature of the Romantic period emphasized feeling, heroism, and the return to nature.
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Alphonse de Lamartine (born 1790, died 1869)
French poet.
- Wrote Meditations poetiques
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Clement C. Moore (born 1779, died 1863)
American poet.
- Wrote ''''A Visit From Saint Nicholas''''
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Friedrich von Schiller (born 1759, died 1805)
German poet and playwright.
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George Gordon, Lord Byron (born 1788, died 1824)
English poet.
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Heinrich Heine (born 1797, died 1856)
German poet.
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James Fenimore Cooper (born 1789, died 1851)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Last of the Mohicans
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Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal) (born 1783, died 1842)
French novelist.
- Wrote The Red and the Black
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born 1772, died 1834)
English poet and critic.
- Wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Washington Irving (born 1783, died 1859)
American essayist and short-story writer.
- Wrote ''''Rip Van Winkle''''
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Wilhelm Grimm (born 1786, died 1859)
German folklorist.
- Wrote Grimm''s Fairy Tales with his brother Jacob
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William Blake (born 1757, died 1827)
English visionary poet, artist and engraver.
- Wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
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William Wordsworth (born 1770, died 1850)
English poet.
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Robert Burns (born 1759, died 1796)
Scottish poet.
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Sir Walter Scott (born 1771, died 1832)
Scottish poet and novelist.
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Charles Lamb (born 1775, died 1834)
English poet and essayist.
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William Hazlitt (born 1778, died 1830)
English essayist.
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Thomas De Quincey (born 1785, died 1859)
English essayist.
- Wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Thomas Love Peacock (born 1785, died 1866)
English novelist and poet.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (born 1792, died 1822)
English poet.
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John Keats (born 1795, died 1821)
English poet.
- Wrote ''''Ode on a Grecian Urn''''
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William Lisle Bowles (born 1762, died 1850)
English poet.
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Walter Savage Landor (born 1775, died 1864)
Welsh poet.
- Wrote Imaginary Conversations
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Thomas Moore (born 1779, died 1852)
Irish poet and songwriter.
- Wrote the collection Irish Melodies
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John Clare (born 1793, died 1864)
British poet.
- Wrote The Shepherd''s Calendar
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George Darley (born 1795, died 1846)
Irish poet.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (born 1803, died 1849)
English poet.
- Wrote ''''The Phantom Wooer''''
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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (born 1799, died 1837)
Russian poet and playwright.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born 1749, died 1832)
German poet, playwright and novelist.
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Jacob Grimm (born 1785, died 1863)
German folklorist.
- Wrote Grimm''s Fairy Tales with his brother Wilhelm
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Ugo Foscolo (born 1778, died 1827)
Venetian poet and novelist.
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Gustavus Vasa or Equiano Olaudah (born 1745, died 1802)
Nigerian freed slave and writer.
- Nigerian writer, author of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasa, Written by Himself
Writers of the Romantic Period (1785-1830)
Literature of the Romantic period emphasized feeling, heroism, and the return to nature.
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Jane Austen (born 1775, died 1817)
English novelist.
- Wrote Pride and Prejudice
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Dorothy Wordsworth (born 1771, died 1855)
English writer.
- Wrote The Alfoxden Journal
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Mary Wollstonecraft (born 1759, died 1797)
English writer and feminist. Mother of author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
- Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women as a response to Jeanne Jaque''s argument that women exist to please men
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (born 1797, died 1851)
English novelist. Married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (born 1743, died 1825)
English poet.
- Wrote ''''To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible''''
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Joanna Baillie (born 1762, died 1851)
Scottish playwright and poet.
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans (born 1793, died 1835)
English poet.
- Wrote ''''England''s Dead''''
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Fanny Burney (born 1752, died 1840)
English novelist.
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Elizabeth Inchbald (born 1753, died 1821)
English actress, playwright and novelist.
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Ann Radcliffe (born 1764, died 1823)
English writer of extremely popular Gothic novels.
- Wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Susanna Rowson (died 1824)
English-American actress, playwright, novelist and educator.
- Wrote the first American bestseller, Charlotte Temple
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Annette, Baroness von Droste-Hülshoff (born 1797, died 1848)
German poet and short-story writer.
- Wrote Das geistliche Jahr (''''The Spiritual Year'''')
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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (born 1814, died 1873)
Cuban poet, playwright and novelist.
- Wrote the play Alfonso Munio
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Laure, duchesse d'Abrantès Junot (born 1784, died 1838)
French noblewoman and associate of Napoleon, who wrote a famous memoir of some of France's most turbulent years.
- Wrote Mémoires sur Napoléon, la Révolution, le Consulat, l''Empire et la Restauration