From 1803, Britain was at war with Napoleon's France, ending with his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. The Napoleonic wars played a large part in the shift in tone within Romanticism. Literature and public sentiment changed from revolutionary hope to a more disillusioned literature caused by an increase in nationalism and anxiety towards the government and revolution.
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1803-1815
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