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rafalgar | 1805-1817. Scotts poems | 1807. Wordsworth's Intimations of 1807. Abolition of slave trade | Immortality. Lamb's Tales | from Shakespeare 1808-1814. Peninsular War | | 1809-1818. Byron's Childe Harold 1812. Second war with United States | 1810-1813. Coleridge's Lectures on | Shakespeare 1814. Congress of Vienna | 1814-1831. Waverley Novels 1815. Battle of Waterloo | | 1816. Shelley's Alastor | 1817. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria | 1817-1820. Keats's poems | 1818-1820. Shelley's Prometheus 1819. First Atlantic steamship | 1820. George IV (_d_. 1830) | 1820. Wordsworth's Duddon Sonnets | 1820-1833. Lamb's Essays of Elia | 1821. De Quincey's Confessions | 1824-1846. Landor's Imaginary | Conversations. 1826. First Temperance Society | 1829. Catholic Emancipation Bill | 1830. William IV (_d_. 1837) | 1830. Tennyson's first poems First railway | | 1831. Scott's last novel 1832. Reform Bill | 1833. Emancipation of slaves | 1833. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus | Browning's Pauline 1834. System of national education | 1837. Victoria (_d_. 1901) | | 1853-1861. De Quincey's Collected | Essays ============================================================================ * * * * * CHAPTER XI THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) THE MODERN PERIOD OF PROGRESS AND UNREST When Victoria became queen, in 1837, English literature seemed to have entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with the poetic fruitfulness of the romantic age which we have just studied. Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Scott had passed away, and it seemed as if there were no writers in England to fill their places. Wordsworth had writ
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