Literary Highlights•Wordsworth and Coleridge publish Lyrical Balladsin 1798. Thus starting the Romantic Era.•Romanticism arises as a response to social and economic changes caused by the Industrial Revolution.•Keats, Byron, and Shelley write their greatest poems in the early nineteenth century.The Romantic Period: 1798–1832Fast Facts
•English conservatives worry that revolutionary fever will cross the Channel to England.•Because the French king has been overthrown by a democratic mob, the French Revolutionis radical and frightening to English ruling classes.History of the Times•Until the violence and terror escalate, English liberals support the French Revolution’s ideals of “liberty, fraternity, equality.”Key Concept: Revolution Spreads