The Romantic Period -- Visuals --


William Wordsworth (1770-1850)


[Click on image to link to official Tintern Abbey website]
The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, Looking Towards the East Window (1794)
by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
Image source: Tate Collection; click here for Tate Collection original; click here for alternate view from Tate Collection


Click here for more Tintern Abbey paintings


Field of Daffodils photograph which evokes
Wordsworth's poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Image from my.opera.com

Also see:
Norton's Romantic Period Topics: "Tintern Abbey, Tourism, and Romantic Landscape: Overview"
                                                     "Beauties of Claude Lorrain"
                                                     "William Wordsworth, from Guide to the Lakes"

                                                     "William Gilpin, from Observations on the River Wye"
                                                     as well as many more "Illustrations" Norton as to offer

Also see the Claude Lorrain's Idyll: Landscape with a Draughtman Sketching Ruins on display at The Spencer Art Museum on campus.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)


Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Image from Stormy Weather Software
[click on image for more "Mariner" engravings]  

Also see:
Norton's Romantic Period Topics: "Romantic Orientalism"     


Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Byron's bust at the National Potrait Gallery
                                  [click on bust for more "Byronic" images]

Also see:
Norton's Romantic Period Topics: "Literary Gothicism: Overview"
                                                     "The Satanic and Byronic Hero"
                                                     A selection of illustrations from 18th century Literary Gothic


John Keats (1795-1821)

 
click on image for more "Keatsean" images
(Image from http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Keats.htm)


                                             
                    Keat's drawing of the Urn                     click on image for more "Belle Dame" visuals Image from http://www.olemiss.edu/courses/engl309/urn.html
            [link: photograph of example urn]


Jane Austen (1775-1817)


One of two known portraits of Jane Austen taken from life by Cassandra Austen
Image from The Republic of Pemberley; original located at National Portrait Gallery
[click on image to see more Austen portraits]

Click here to see useful Austen-related webpages

Click here to see a list of Austen film adaptations


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