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30 Great Myths about the Romantics [2015]

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Myth 1: Romanticism began in 1798
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Myth 2: English Romanticism was a reaction against the Enlightenment
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Myth 3: The Romantics hated the sciences
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Myth 4: The Romantics repudiated the Augustans, especially Pope and Dryden
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Myth 5: The Romantic poets were misunderstood, solitary geniuses
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Myth 6: Romantic poems were produced by spontaneous inspiration
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Myth 7: Blake was mad
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Myth 8: Blake wrote ‘Jerusalem’ as an anthem to Englishness
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Myth 9: <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> (1798) was designed to illustrate ‘the two cardinal points of poetry’, using poems about everyday life and the supernatural
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Myth 10: Wordsworth's Preface to <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> was a manifesto for the Romantic revolution
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Myth 11: Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship with his sister
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Myth 12: Tory Wordsworth
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Myth 13: The person from Porlock
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Myth 14: Jane Austen had an incestuous relationship with her sister
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Myth 15: The Keswick rapist
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Myth 16: Byron had an affair with his sister
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Myth 17: Byron was a great lover of women
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Myth 18: Byron was a champion of democracy
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Myth 19: Byron was a ‘noble warrior’ who died fighting for Greek freedom
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Myth 20: Shelley committed suicide by sailboat
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Myth 21: Shelley's heart
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Myth 22: Keats's ‘humble origins’
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Myth 23: Keats was gay
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Myth 24: Keats was killed by a review
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Myth 25: Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote <i>Frankenstein</i>
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Myth 26: Women writers were an exploited underclass – unknown, unloved, and unpaid
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Myth 27: The Romantics were atheists
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Myth 28: The Romantics were counter‐cultural drug users
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Myth 29: The Romantics practised free love on principle
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Myth 30: The Romantics were the rock stars of their day
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Coda
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Further Reading
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A Note on Monetary Values
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