Understanding the English Romantic Period

This free online course on English literature of the Romantic period, discusses poetry and fiction of the Romantic era.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

Identify the most common theme underlying the fiction of the different genres of the Romantic period
Describe the characteristics of the historical and the gothic novels
Discuss the importance of sensibility and passion in the poetry of the Romantic period
Analyze the depiction of sentiment and sentimentality in the poetry of the Romantic period
Relate the expressed views of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake with their poetry
Analyze how the English Romantic authors dealt with the environment and Nature
Identify the similarities and dissimilarities in the Romantics' relationship with Nature
Recall poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley on the theme of Nature

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