The Change of Literature During Industrialization

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Literature gives a unique and lasting portrait into the past. Long before picket lines and protests, poets wrote about issues they saw in the world. England was in chaos as the Industrial Revolution began. Poets like Wordsworth and Blake did not like the results of the urbanization had on humans and nature. The Romantic period’s authors works give the perfect vision into the time and still hold true now. In the late 1700s, marked a large change in England as industrialization took hold. People moved into the city and took factory jobs. This era marked the time of the printing press and the transfer from manual labor to machines to produce wares. At around the same time England’s slave trade began. All of this brought about literature that railed against. The literature, itself, was about the power of nature and its ability to prevail over mankind. There was a human element to the poetry too, emotion was important to the poets of this time. Many of the Romantic era poets felt that working in factories dehumanized people, made them forget their emotions. One of the quintessen...

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