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romanticism
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- introduced through friend of friend (Leigh Hunt - Shelly + Wordsworth)
- a part of the second wave (darker + based on human emotionality)
- accepted: freedom of individual expression ,sincerity spontaneity, originality, emotional directness, emotional intensity, power of imagination
- rejected: 18th C classicism, ordered rationality, impersonal + artificial feelings, ariistorctaric patronage, mechanical convention, conservative morality
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social and historic
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- some claimed Keats reacted to horrors of his life by writing escapist poetry
- corn price high - affected w/c
- rapid population growth, 50% increase in 1801-31
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religious
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- against religion - felt segregate from shred ideologies
- didn’t believe a higher being would cause such suffering
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politics
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- born into politically turbulent Europe’s: French Revolution, Napoleonic Wrs, beginning of Regency
- War with France (1793-1815) covered life up till 20
- disruption to trade caused widespread poverty + hardship (particularly l/c)
- Peterloo Massacre: 1819
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religious expression
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- methodism: attempted to reform church of england 18C, emotional endgame t of its adherence with Christianity linked to stress on feeling + passion in Keats (+ other romantics)
- evangelicalism: Keats ultimately rejected the Christian message - bus passionate strength of convictions is similar to energy found in religious movements of his time
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personal
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- Fanny Brawn refused to call off the engagement despite knowing he will die soon.
- Experienced a lot of death
- 1804:father die in riding accident
- 1810: mother dies from TB – watched over by Keats himself
- Shows close connection with death + fist hand experiences seeing the deportation of those he loved
- Influenced desires to escape functioning of society into nature (death treated in a calmer sense)
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