british literature romantic period

l82l Thomas De Quincey, Aonfessions'oJ an English Opium-Earen Percy Shelley, Ailonais :

1823 Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia

1824 Letitia Landon,The lmprovisatrice

1826 Mary Shelley, The Last Man

1827 Clare, The Shepherd's Calenilar

1828 Hemans, Aecords dWoman

l83O Charles Lyell, Pineiples of Geology (1830-33). Alfred Tennyson, Poeus, Chiefly Lyrical

l82l Deaths ofKeats inRome and Napoleon at St. Helena

1822 Franz Scluiert, IJnf.nish4d. Synphotry. Debth of Percy Shelliy in the Bay of Spezia, near Lerici; Italy

1824 Death of Byron in Missolonghi

1828 Parliamentary repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts excluding Dissenters from state offices

1829 CatholicEmancipation

l83O Death ofGeorge IV; accession of William IV. Revolution in France

lE32 First Reform Bil l

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