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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (/ p ɛ s t ə ˈ l ɒ t s i /; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪnrɪç pɛstaˈlɔtsiː] ⓘ; Italian: [pestaˈlɔttsi]; 12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity , imagination , and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of ...
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. His early years were dominated by his experience of old Trafford around the Lake District and the English moors.
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The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older ...
The education of the people: A history of primary education in England and Wales in the nineteenth century (Routledge, 2013) Toloudis, Nicholas. Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam: Public Education, State Centralization, and Teacher Unionism in France and the United States (Temple University Press, 2012) 213, pp. * Sorin-Avram, Virtop (2015).
Carlyle's early education came from his mother, who taught him reading (despite being barely literate), and his father, who taught him arithmetic. [11] He first attended "Tom Donaldson's School" in Ecclefechan followed by Hoddam School ( c. 1802–1806 ), which "then stood at the Kirk ", located at the "Cross-roads" midway between Ecclefechan ...