Open AccessThe Napoleon mystique and British poets
Author(s) -
Mary Anne Mc Danel de García
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista científica general josé maría córdova/revista científica general josé maría córdova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2500-7645
pISSN - 1900-6586
DOI - 10.21830/19006586.382
Subject(s) - nobility , hero , romance , george (robot) , chivalry , literature , poetry , history , victorian era , art , british literature , art history , english literature , law , politics , political science
This reflection on the influence of Napoleon and the consequences of the wars on the major British poets of the Romantic era is meant to illustrate how the reactions of both nobility and commoners are recorded in literature and media. The dual perception of Napoleon as both hero and tyrant and the atrocious suffering of those at home and bloody battles are manifest in the works of the major poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelly, and especially George Gordon, Lord Byron. Even today, Napoleon transcends precise definition and he has inspired some of the greatest poets in British literature