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Robert Burns

Date Lyrical Ballads is first published

Joanne Baille

Anne Radcliff’s Mysteries of Udolpho

Mary Prince

Jacque-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1805)

Bonus (2 points):   During the summer of 1816, who spent time with Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley near Geneva, Switzerland, the place where she conceived the novel Frankenstein?

Felicia Hemans

Essay (MULTIPLE paragraphs, with a thesis statement and conclusion). Read CAREFULLY.  You’ll need at least 20-25 minutes for this section. Explain fully and develop with adequate textual evidence or detail from the texts itself.   Looking back at our study of Samuel Coleridge, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Prince, George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, and Mary Shelley, identify any THREE authors and make the case for their being a “Romantic era” author. As part of your answer, comment on both WHAT they say and HOW they say it or use language.

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage