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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"
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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
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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