We are letting Taylor Swift take us to the lakes today! These are the lyrics Angela used to convince Uncle Jerry to do this podcast, and his analysis does not disappoint. Come with us to learn all about Romanticism, The Lakes Poets, and how Taylor expertly weaves those two into this poem.

Works Cited:

A Brief Guide to Romanticism

The Lake Poets

Lyrical Ballads – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Aff Link

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – Aff Link

Romanticism vs. Neoclassicism

The Last of the Mohicans – 1992

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dorothy Wordsworth

Dove Cottage

Robert Southey

Thomas De Quincy

John Keats

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tales from Shakespeare – Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

John Ruskin

Harriet Martineau

The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats

Sonnets from the Portuguese 20: Beloved, my Beloved, when I think – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Full Book Aff Link

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love – Christopher Marlowe

Hartley Coleridge 

Poetic Inversion

Aurora Leigh – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley – Aff Link

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William Wordsworth

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