“Newgate Prison, begun 176, bythe younger George Dance. In this grim, foruesvike front, Pope's advice to estan the Mias’s sted i arid to its exeme “This new classi wa farther advanced by architects a generation younger than the comerate Chambes and advenuous Adam, ‘revadvenaroes auth Contemporary eae In 1769 George Dance the Younger began New thie Daison, te seversy of which and particuae Sched openings, reall the Caloseum, Greck Ione ordex forthe seer ofthe Gen the Dorie anathema to Chambers ~in the hal of Dover Ho EuT Blom thi edeese casicsm, which admiced So many s Greer and Rome, and looked nosalgicaly a their vanished {G's tomanci appreciation of Gothic was ey, and one that fe capo cunt fling, was soon to take Fao cars fame the tanign beoween che Clinical and Romantic age, The Indostl Revoluson was beginning, and one by one the great mea She od tation were going: Johnsen, Gaicsbocough, Reynolds, Adam, Chambers Ts 1785 Willa Cowper published The Toth af Saree foem, with a genuine ling for nator that amcpated Toren Shi ar Canary, writen afer of exaring madness one of ss poems the language ar removed fom the resent of Be Reeitcke Te r7lt came the lst thre volume of Gibbon's monumental iene Sad Tail of the Ramon Enpit, the lapidary prose of which was, apa Rea Borwells fea Jolson, te ast great contbuton othe Age of Reason, sete tyas, wile Gowda were gaping atthe pctres in Alderman Boydell's Seas Galery, ethos singles catches aad gles, o Uiening to “Tom Bove’ and ether sevsongs of Chaes Thmccne and se Pars mob sormed the Basle William Blake was born in 1757, chough no man could have been less charac- teristic of the eighteenth ceneury. An individualist, he belonged ro no school and, zeecting the cult of reason, pursued the visions of both posy abd painting, Much of is tet Prophet Books private language, and his bese work i in short and simple poe a poem that nobody bur he cx inst the Royal Academy, Reynolds, and realism, tro years younger than Blake, was another poet out of sympathy with his cemly, hough for difent reasons, A bel thinker, lives and lover, he ized hypoctisy in poems such as Holy Wille's Prayer and wrote a century of fet and number of rey, humorously improper ois ‘would seareely have won the approbation of Dr Johnson. ‘Burns ded in 1796, by which time England i Pen war wih Rel tionary France for three years and, apart from one short break, lase une the final victory of Waterloo in 1815: two decades that of the first phase of the Romantic Movement. This was a revolt precipitated by che French Revolution, against dhe rule of reason and the festaints of Class cism, for the glorification of freedom, imagination, and emotion, the 12 The Romantics 1789-1837kind of building chat might have come out of a picture fiom 2 landscape ade or Poussin. Strawbe picturesque in is ieregu so Ge TI of the poems being by his frend, the ewenty-cight-yeatc Biagrphia Liteara Cs wate thae supematural appear exedible, whet of novely to things of every day, and to excite afecling analogous to the super natural, by awakening the ‘attention from the lethargy of custom, and direceing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ‘worth said much the same thing in second edition of the L; Defic that was the manifesto of the Romantic Movement. An end of the eighteenth ce conventions, the metrical for new freedom of matter and a3 Wordsworth claimed. form and supernatural in The An and he anrcipated the ext poem of Kuble Khor. But W best of his age. He ereated ‘ romance of Greece, yet he di forth proved the more infuential poet, and admired Pope, as well as George Crab foday, when indusuy and uninformed town-dwelers in motovears are dese ‘couplets, grim realistic tories like Peter Grim troying both countyside and coast, the message of The Prelude, Tintera Abey, Like Byron, Shelley was the champion of liberty, but he had none of Byron's fand his Iyres has never been more important: the benign influence of narute cynicism, levie, and woeldliness; an ideals, he wrote of man’s liberation in the fon man, its formative, consolatory and power. Like Coleridge's, Ijzial allegory Promeths Unbound, though man iste more than 2 of Wordsworth's finest poetry, the work that makes him one of the greats poety of air and ocean, he himself litle English poes, was watten by 18rs, as were the immensely popular ‘with which he identfed himself: ‘Be thou me, impetuous or romances The Lay of he Last Minstrel and Mernion, of theit contemporary Six ethereal poct of night and the moon, of shadows and the intan lke Ss Romie vent may be i hve h and dhe san, ofaucomnal richness and sensuous beauty, second phase of che Romantic Movement may be said to have begun ot with the wind but with the sparrow pecking among the afer Wane ts ic was during the lst yas ofthe war that young Lard ‘window. Hei the atch-omanti, for whom the ule-bound afct War, tho i aneun ive in Che Har the fe vomantic, for whom the rule-bound of which appeared in 1812. A supreme egotst he was the hero of al and his strength lies in description, satire, mockery, gs and humorous bathos, above all in Dor Juan, though some of his lyri are among the