The French Revolution and Romanticism are two cardinal movements which have produced great politicians, thinkers, dramatists and poets; the former is political the latter literary and philosophical. This paper discusses the impact of the French Revolution on the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge-the older generation of the Romantics; their poems reflected the spirit of the age; the French Revolution is a dramatic event in the human history which inspired the intellgencia of literary, political and artistic circles. Following the destruction of the Bastille, its effects hit first the French and then the event impacted England and the rest of the world. This paper also analyzes this impact on the poems under scrutiny; namely, Blake’s The French Revolution (1791), Wordsworth’s The Prelude and Coleridge’s “The Destruction of the Bastille”.
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