1. Romanticism
   1. Concepts
      1. medievalism
      2. orientalism
      3. primitivism
      4. idea of progress
      5. Anti-intellectualism
      6. sentimentalism
      7. humanitarianism
      8. democracy
      9. originality
      10. diversitarianism
      11. purgative purpose of art
      12. fundamental antipathy of the artist to his times
      13. Love of the wild
   2. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   3. Mary Wollstonecraft
   4. Charlotte Smith
   5. Mary Robinson
   6. William Blake
      1. Doctrine of Contraries
         1. "WIthout Contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, lkove and hate, are necessary to human existence." (from marriage of Heaven and Hell c. 1790
         2. The Doctrine of Contraries relates most obviously to William Blake's collection Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Doctrine of Contraries suggests that human beings gain full knowledge only when they contemplate both good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hate. Romantics celebrate the natural innocence of a child, but they also realistically admit that one must experience the realities of the world in order to mature and to improve inequities or problems. The term is significant to understanding Songs of Innocence and Experience because Blake suggests that humans should be both innocent and joyful (as the child who asks the speaker to sing for him in the Songs of Innocence) and reasonably experienced (as the "Bard" in Songs of Experience). Such a balance of innocence and experience allows one to function and affect positively the world around him. For example, in Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence), the speaker naively celebrates the beauty of seeing children sing praises to God. However, in Holy Thursday (Songs of Experience), the speaker sees beyond the image of beautiful children to realize that they are merely cleaned-up orphans. Society has made them look good for one day and thus ignores the reality of their despair, poverty, and filthy living conditions. Appreciate the native beauty possible, the speaker seems to say, but actually do something about the reality (poverty) that is also present.
         3. Duality of God
      2. Mysticism
      3. Claimed poetry provided alternate reality
      4. Wanted to overthrow house of commons.
      5. Sword was the pen.
      6. Wordsworth
         1. theopathy
            1. David Hartley
            2. Seven Steps of the progression of the mind.
            3. think Emerson's Transparent Eyeball
            4. religious emotion or excitement caused by contemplation of God
         2. Comparative merit of nature and books
            1. cf Shelley's epipsychidion
         3. spots of time
            1. transcendent recollection into the devine
         4. Spontaneous overflow
         5. preexistence of the soul.
         6. Brother dies of TB
            1. Elegiac Stanzas
         7. Leech-Gatherer
            1. "Resolution and Independence"
   7. Robert Burns
      1. Life was reestablishing the respect of Scottish heritage.
      2. Anti-organized Church
   8. Joanna Baillie
      1. Voice that inspired Burns
   9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      1. druggy
      2. Eolian Harp
      3. spiritual power of the imagination
         1. primary imagination
            1. human ability to perceive and recognize
         2. secondary imagination
            1. ability to interpret
      4. organic unity
   10. Thomas de Quincy
   11. George Gordon, Lord Byron
       1. byronic hero
   12. Percy Byssche Shelley
       1. epipsychidion
          1. Follower of William Godwin
             1. necessitarianism
             2. man out of necessity will attain perfection
          2. soul of my soul
          3. combination of intellectual and spiritual beauty
          4. "[Poets are] the unacknowledged legislators of the world" - Defense of poecy
   13. John Keats
       1. Chamber of Maiden Thought
          1. "Well--I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me--The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber, in which we remain as long as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a bright appearance, we care not to hasten to it; but are at length imperceptibly impelled by the awakening the thinking principle--within us-we no sooner get into the second Chamber, which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought, than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere, we see nothing but pleasant wonders, and think of delaying there for ever in delight: However among effects this breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one's vision into the heart and nature of Man--of convincing ones nerves that the World is full of Misery and Heartbreak, Pain, Sickness and oppression--whereby This Chamber of Maiden Thought becomes gradually darken'd and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open--but all dark--all leading to dark passages--We see not the ballance of good and evil. We are in a Mist--We are now in that state--We feel the 'burden of the Mystery'. . ."
       2. Negative Capability
          1. " . . several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously--I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason--Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half knowledge. This pursued through Volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
          2. Ode to a Nightingale
   14. Mary Shelly
       1. gothic
          1. appealed to primitivism
          2. simplicity dignity and unity
          3. magic mystery and chivalry
          4. sometimes grotesque