rafalgar | 1805-1817. Scotts poems
| 1807. Wordsworth's Intimations of
1807. Abolition of slave trade | Immortality. Lamb's Tales
| from Shakespeare
1808-1814. Peninsular War |
| 1809-1818. Byron's Childe Harold
1812. Second war with United States | 1810-1813. Coleridge's Lectures on
| Shakespeare
1814. Congress of Vienna | 1814-1831. Waverley Novels
1815. Battle of Waterloo |
| 1816. Shelley's Alastor
| 1817. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria
| 1817-1820. Keats's poems
| 1818-1820. Shelley's Prometheus
1819. First Atlantic steamship |
1820. George IV (_d_. 1830) | 1820. Wordsworth's Duddon Sonnets
| 1820-1833. Lamb's Essays of Elia
| 1821. De Quincey's Confessions
| 1824-1846. Landor's Imaginary
| Conversations.
1826. First Temperance Society |
1829. Catholic Emancipation Bill |
1830. William IV (_d_. 1837) | 1830. Tennyson's first poems
First railway |
| 1831. Scott's last novel
1832. Reform Bill |
1833. Emancipation of slaves | 1833. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
| Browning's Pauline
1834. System of national education |
1837. Victoria (_d_. 1901) |
| 1853-1861. De Quincey's Collected
| Essays
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CHAPTER XI

THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900)

THE MODERN PERIOD OF PROGRESS AND UNREST

When Victoria became queen, in 1837, English literature seemed to have
entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with the poetic
fruitfulness of the romantic age which we have just studied. Coleridge,
Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Scott had passed away, and it seemed as if there
were no writers in England to fill their places. Wordsworth had writ