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The Romantics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - John Keats following this Idea
  - - - Opposed the French Revolution
      - Supported Catholic emancipation
      - Opposed British rule overseas
        
        North America
        
        India
        
        Ireland
      - 1729-1797
    - - inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      - Starts discussion from the point of the universe / nature
        
        trying to move up to abstract ideas
      - Philosophy and Religion being closely allied
      - Bridged the gap between dogmatic idealism and empiricism
      - 1724-1804
      - Central figure in modern philosophy
      - "He argues that the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature that structure all our experience; and that human reason gives itself the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and immortality." (Michael Rohlf)
        
        https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/
    - - "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
      - the "noble savage"
      - 1712-1778
      - Marked the end of the European Enlightenment
      - Believed civilisation was harmful and all cultures were corrupt
      - "Life is not breath but action"
  - - - William Blake's 'The Sick Rose'
  - - - William Worsworth
      - Smaule Taylor Coleridge
      - John Keats
- - - - implied philosophy but didn't versify it
  - - - Social reformer
      - viewed as the English Jean Jacques Rousseau
    - - Journalist
      - Engaged with public debate
    - - Essayist
    - - Experimentalist
      - Confession of an English opium eater (1818)
        
        demonic underside to poetry
    - - "His famous chapter on Gothic Adventure in Stones of Venice draws attention to the union between artist and artisan; between creator, consumer and critic" (Rob Worrall)
    - - Involved in the Arts and Crafts Movement
  - - - Wanted to understand the true nature of life
    - - Poets are created from the loss of identity
- - - - "viewed by many as the dawn of a political order
        where liberty and equality would be bywords of
        the new era" (Rebekah Owens and Andrew Anderson)
      - Beginning of the 'Great Terror'
      - Mass graves of victims of the guillotine
        
        most were supporters of liberty
    - - Transformation of rural, agrarian societies to industrialised, urban societies
      - Began in Britain
      - Use of new basic materials, eg. iron and steel
      - Use of new energy sources, eg. coal, the steam engine, electricity and petroleum
      - Britain initially forbade the export of machinery, skilled works and manufacturing techniques (was an industrial monopoly)
- - - - Charles II after Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth
    - - established a strict Anglican orthodoxy
  - - - Concept of individualism vs society
      - Politics and social issues
      - Satire and irony
      - Comedy
      - Empiricism