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William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge published a collection of poems called "Lyrical Ballads". It was the beginning of the Romantic Era. Romanticism also coincided with the French, American, and Industrial Revolutions. "Lyrical Ballads" included Coleridge's, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
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Napoleon becomes French emperor, ending the French Revolution.
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Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
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Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein; it includes inserts of poems from her husband Percy Shelley. It consisted of Romantic and Gothic era ideals, and is often considered one of the first science fiction novels.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes the closet play, Prometheus Unbound. A closet play is a play that is not meant to be performed, however Prometheus Unbound still has characteristics of a performable play. The play is a romantic type of work because it depends on the reader's imagination.
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Designed by Peter Cooper, the Tom Thumb was the first American-built train.
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Victor Hugo published the Romantic novel, and he also wrote Les Miserables. Hugo incorporates the gothic era into his work, a common trait of romanticism.
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Realism begins after the Revolution. The Realist movement offers and alternative to the Romantic movement.
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William Wordsworth's The Prelude was published three months after his death. Wordsworth's most famous work, The Prelude is said to be the "crowning acheivement of English romanticism".
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Written by Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter is an example of American Romanticism. It deals with religion and politics.
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A world fair in Paris where impressionist art became popularized. This marks the beginning of the end of Romanticism. Impressionism and modernism begin to replace Romanticism.
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Darwin publishes the On the Origin of Species, which focuses on the biological and scientific part of nature. It opposes the Romantic movement to some degree.
