Titlebook: Romanticism and War; A Study of British R J. R. Watson Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003 Coleri

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Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. Watson discusses the particular fascination of those wars, and the way in which they affected a way of thinking about war that lasted until the ear

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1793,vents unfolded, became more complicated. There was a certain fear, and even wonder, at the progress of the Revolution: it was a constant topic of discussion and pamphleteering, of cartoons and poems; and it formed a major part in influencing the fluctuations of British politics in an age of excitement and uncertainty.

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,Poetry and the Army: The War, 1807–08,d Austrians at Austerlitz in December 1805. In October 1806 Prussia was defeated at Jena, and the Russians again at Friedland (after the indecisive battle of Eylau in February 1807). The treaty of Tilsit which followed established Napoleon at the height of his power in Europe: the only country which escaped his rigorous control was Portugal.

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Cintra and Corunna,king on the abdication of his father, Charles IV, and both weakly resigned all rights of government to the French, encouraged by the Queen and her favourite, Manuel de Godoy. In the words of a poem printed in . in July 1808, ‘the wonder-working NAPPY/ Let loose a king-demolishing Decree’.