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The Romantic Child

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The Romantic Child
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Gresham College
Published on Dec 5, 2018
How did the Romantics invent the modern idea of childhood? This lecture puts particular emphasis on the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth.

A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 20 November 2018

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an...​

The Romantics invented the modern idea of childhood.

In the third of his lectures on the rhetoric of Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will explore how they did so, with particular emphasis on the role of children in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth. He will also show how Wordsworth's memory of his own chiludhood allowed him to invent something else as well: the art of poetic autobiography.




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SteveOUK
SteveOUK
4 years ago

Very true. For the longest time, children were seen merely as small adults and not very highly regarded. They often slept in hallways or on bare floors while adults had at least cots, and a child's room was unheard of. Of course, the concept of child abuse as we know it today didn't exist until the start of the 20th century either, and then only as a consequence of the RSPCA's protection of animals. Good lecture overall!

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