Romanticism and Walt Whitman

By hockey13

  • Romanticism

    Was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century

  • Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes "Prometheus Unbound"

    After creating and editing he publishes

  • Walt Whitman Learns Printing Trade

    Walt Whitman Learns Printing Trade Gets a job as an apprentice for the Long island Patriot Newspaper. He immediately takes to the profession

  • The beginning of Walt Whitmans teaching

    Whitman's newspaper trade comes to a halt after a fire destroys the printing district in New York, and then becomes a teacher

  • Walt Whitman returns to the newspaper

    Whitman temporarily leaves teaching

  • Walt Whitman publishes his first novel "Franklin Evans" or "The Inebriate"

  • William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth's The Prelude was published three months after his death. Wordsworth's most famous work, The Prelude is said to be the "crowning acheivement of English romanticism".

  • Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass

  • Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass" for the 2nd time

    Whitman adds more poems and republishes it

  • Walt Whitman publishes poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!

    Whitman writes this peom in reaction to the Civil War

  • Civil War

    12th Apr, 1861 Civil War The Civil War breaks out. Whitman moves to Washington D.C. and works as a nurse in the military hospitals

  • 14th Apr, 1865 Lincoln Assasinated

    President Lincoln is assassinated