Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (1798) Goethe, Faust, Part I (1810) Byron:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812—18) John Keats:Poems by John Keats (1817) Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (1820) Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" (1828) Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829) Poems (1831) Emerson, Nature; Gogol, Inspector General; Büchner, Woyzeck (1836) Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838) Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (Graham’s, April 1841) "The Gold Bug" (June 1843) brings Poe national notice Prose Romances (1843) "The Raven" (Evening Mirror, Jan. 29); The Raven and Other Poems; Tales (1845) Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845) Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1846) Eureka (1848) Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) | 1800 1850 | Beginnings of English Romanticism Napoleon becomes Emperor of France (1804) Poe born in Boston (Jan. 19, 1809) Beethoven, Fifth Symphony (1810) Poe’s parents die, and Poe is taken in by the Allans of Richmond (1811) Napoleon defeated at Waterloo (1815) Poe enlists in U.S. Army (1827) Poe enters West Point; after 7 months, he seeks discharge and is court-martialed (1830—31) Poe marries Virginia Clemm (1835) American Transcendentalists meet in Boston and Concord (1836) Poe becomes an editor for Graham’s Magazine
in Philadelphia(1841) Dickens and Poe meet in Philadelphia (Mar. 1842) Poe joins staff of Evening Mirror in New York (1844) Upsurge of Romantic movement in France, Germany, and Italy (1844—45) Virginia Clemm Poe dies (Jan. 30, 1847) Poe dies in Baltimore (Oct. 7, 1849) |
