Time Frame:
-From 1740 to 1820
Society in England:
-beginning of the Industrial Revolution
-London more crowded than ever
-work houses and orphanages were full
Attitudes:
-new interests in the common people
-desired radical change
-developed from watching the French Revolution
Feelings about Literature:
-emphasis on emotion
-subject matter is equally important
-deals with incidents and situations from common life
-ordinary things should be presented in an unusual way
-incorporate human passions with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature
-nature is not a force to tamed and analyzed scientifically
-it is a wild free force that can inspire poets to spiritual understanding
-they champion the individual as a human being

The British Romanticism Period