Exhibit:

Age of Romanticism - Collaborative Gallery

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Wordsworth's Grave, wood engraving
Photo found at https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/where-graves-famous-people-notts-174099
Songs of Innocence
The Nightmare

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MSSU ENG272 - Fall 2020

ENT 272 LogoThis gallery is part of the ENG 272 collaborative "Age of Romanticism" Map, one element of the Image, Event, Place Project. Add one image that is related or relevant in some way to the work we have been reading in the first several weeks of class. Provide sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural detail and, perhaps, how it relates to one or more literary works we have read. Be sure to cite your source(s) using MLA bibliographic conventions. One image element is included as an example.

This assignment is modeled on assignments created by Professor Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue University).

Images in this Exhibit

Wordsworth's Grave (Hine)
Wordsworth's Grave, wood engraving

By the time the quintessential Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) died, he was England's Poet Laureate, and he was revered by people of Victorian England. This wood engraving of Wordsworth's grave illustrated an 1860 article titled "A Group of Graves" in Once a Week magazine (vol. 3, p. 273). This image is in the Public Domain.

In the article, author Mackenzie Wolcott describes the situation of the graveyard by the river Rotha and the simple graves of Wordsworth and members of his family. The article also describes the grave of Hartley Coleridge, eldest son of...
Age of Romanticism Map: The French Revolution

In the 18th Century a great Revolution began in Europe, one calling for change and reformation of its government. This Revolution began due to many of the people suffering from oppression by the monachary in France. This age created a new outlook on life and gave writers and artist a new way to express themselves. Romantism was born during the French Revolution. The French Revolution and Romanticism created a fierce reaction in the people and ignited the search for a more direct communication with nature and its creatures. A political writer by the name of Edmund Burke wrote ...
A London Street Scene

        The painting can relate to the French Revolution because the gaurd in the painting repersent the "love of his country". The Painting also relates to Willliam Wordswarth's poetry. Wordsworths style is more focused on common everyday situations.In the paintings you see people going on about their everyday life. If you read willams poem "Expostulation and reply" you could see that ecah person in te painting could relate to the poem.
Lord Byron's Grave
Photo found at https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/where-graves-famous-people-notts-174099

British poet Lord Byron died when he contracted a fever in 1824 while waiting for battle in Greece, and after he passed his body was returned to England. Lord Byron was known for his love of dogs, so of course he wished to be buried by his famously known childhood dog, Boatswain, at Newstead Abbey, his home from 1808-1814. He was refused to be buried there, partially because the house was sold in 1817 and partly because of his morals being questionable, so Lord Byron was buried in his family vault at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Nottinghamshire, England. Pictured is the marble plaque that...
Mary Prince

Mary Prince was a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island, and Antigua, she eventually escaped to London. In London she worked with the Anti Slave Society and eventually became the first black woman to write and publish an autobiography. She also went on to present an anti slavery petition to parliment being the first woman to do so. 

http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_37.html
Children Chimney Sweepers
Songs of Innocence

Chimney sweeping was dangerous and brutal. Especially for the young children that were forced to work in this trade. They were often orphans or sold into apprenticeships due to the hardships of their parents not being able to afford them. They were as young as 6 years old and included both boys and girls.  In this illustration by George Cruikshank, he's depicting an actual event of a two boys who died in the flue of a chimney in December of 1824. One boy suffocated and another was sent to tie a rope to his leg to help retrieve him. This second boy perished as well and the bodies of the two...
Robert Burns engraving on a glass from The Brownhill Inn

Robert Burns often engraved writings into windows and other glass items with his diamond point pen. This item, a tumbler from The Brownhill Inn, is engraved with his poem "Your Welcome Willie Stewart".
St. Micheal's Church

Final resting place of Samuel Taylor Coleridge located in Highgate, London. Built in 1831 and is the highest church in Greater London. A specific feature the church has always had was the red colored doors. Coleridge is buried at the isle of Micheals Parish Church in Highgate, London. He was originally buried at the Old Highgate Chaped but was re-interred in St. Micheals in 1961. Samuel Coleridge passed away on July 25th 1834 at the age of 61.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was a writer during the Romantic Period and an advocate of women's rights. She grew up with a very poor education, but that didn't stop her from becoming a major influence towards feminism with her writings. During her lifetime, Wollstonecraft wrote 8 books along with many essays and pamphlets because she wanted to be the female voice that better changed and benefited society. Mary was best known for her pamphlet she wrote in 1790, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in which she challenged Edmund Burke because of his conservative ways of thinking. She was...
The French Revolution & Richard Price

The French Revolution "was to open English eyes to the possibility of political change in their own country" (Black, et al. 53). This revolution took place in France and lasted 10 years. The people of France overruled the monarchy and ruled the government. Richard Price was a famous poet, preacher, and political thinker.  He was considered a radical thinker when it came to the French Revolution and agreed with the American and French Revolutions and independence (Sandoz). In 1789 Price gave a sermon expressing his support for the French Revolution at the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry (...
The Age of Romanticism and the French Revolution

This picture represents the Storming of the Bastille that happened in 1789. The storming of the Bastille was the start of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison. This is signifcant to the Romanticism period because many of the writers of the period had thoughts and opinions about the French Revolution. They published their thoughts and everyone was able to read about them.
Church yard that inspired "We are Seven"

Pictured here is the Tower of St Mary's Church, Conwy which is where Wordsworth was influenced to write the poem "We are Seven".
The Life of William Wordsworth

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William wordsworth was known helped launch the Romantic Era with the help of his best friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His life was plagued by death and he had suffered many terrible losses. He lost 2 of his siblings when they were young and lost both of his parents making him an orphan at...
"The Nightmare" by Henri Fuseli
The Nightmare

We spoke about this piece in class a bit, but I wanted to dive a bit more deeper into this painting. It was briefly mentioned how controversial it was, so I'd like to add a bit more on that. This painting, as you can see, shows a vulnerable woman with an imp or mara sitting upon her stomach. Her clothes are draped around her in a way that it's very telling of her figure. When presented and displayed in the gallery of The Royal Acadamy, the piece was received with shock by visitors, but it wasn't so shocking that they took it down. Rather it was shocking in a...