Luokat: Kaikki - literature - gothic - nature - identity

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Literature

The period saw a significant shift in literature where childhood and nature were often celebrated, with writers like Coleridge and Wordsworth leading the movement. Poetry became synonymous with the authentic expression of the poet'

Literature

Literature and important writers

Sinister works classified as Gothic focusing on the supernatural and subconscious

Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Horace Walpole

Common life and language were used

Nature was used symbolically
Good poetry was spontaneous and original with the poet’s feelings in focus

Ballads and folk tales became important

Writers turned to history

Byron
Sir Walter Scott
National identity was nourished by the Napoleonic Wars

Childhood and nature were glorified

Coleridge
Wordsworth

A revolutionary and rebellious spirit