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In 1795, Romantic writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge collaborated on a play titled "The Fall of Robespierre".
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From 1797 to 1798 Samuel taylor Coleridge lived near Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somersetshire. In 1798 the two men collaborated on a joint volume of poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads. The collection is considered the first great work of the Romantic school of poetry and contains Coleridge's famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
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In England, Romanticism had its greatest influence from the end of the eighteenth century up through about 1870. Its primary vehicle of expression was in poetry, although novelists adopted many of the same themes. In America, the Romantic Movement was slightly delayed and modulated, holding sway over arts and letters from roughly 1830 up to the Civil War.
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No other literature in history would prove to have more variety in theme, style, and content than the Romantic Movement.
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On the formal level, Romanticism witnessed a steady loosening of the rules of artistic expression that were pervasive during earlier times. The Neoclassical Period of the eighteenth century included very strict expectations regarding the structure and content of poetry. By the dawn of the nineteenth century, experimentation with new styles and subjects became much more acceptable.
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He began writing poetry while at Eton, but his first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi, in which he voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi.
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Percy B Shelley began writing poetry while at Eton, but his first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810).
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University because of continually voicing his opinions on religion. Percy was an Atheist and was not afraid to ever tell people. He believed in many superstitious ideas and loved to tell ghost stories with friends.
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Shelley was actually in line to inherit not only his grandfathers estate, but also a seat in Parliament. He was disavowed though because of a rift between his father and him for the fact that Percy was not a Christian.
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Percy Shelley published his first long serious work, "Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem" in 1813.
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In 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge published "Biographia Literaria", which contained his finest literary criticism.
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In 1817, Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, a long narrative poem that, because it contained references to incest as well as attacks on religion, was withdrawn after only a few copies were published.
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In 1827, Edgar Allen Poe wrote the collection of poems "Tamerlane and Other Poems" which did not receieve much love and was his first publication.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's first book, Nature (1836), is perhaps the best expression of his Transcendentalism, the belief that everything in our world—even a drop of dew—is a microcosm of the universe.
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Among Ralph Emerson's most well known works are Essays, First and Second Series (1841, 1844).
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In 1845, another Romantic poet named Edgar Allen Poe wrote the book "The Raven" which received immediate success.
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Raph Waldo Emerson's other volumes include The Divinity School Address, which he delivered before the graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, shocking Boston's conservative clergymen with his descriptions of the divinity of man and the humanity of Jesus..
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In 1849, Poe wrote a poem called "Eldorado" which was one of his last poems ever written.