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| 1790 |
| | | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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| 1792 |
| | | English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man | |
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| 1794 |
| | | William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright' | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock' | |
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| 1798 |
| | | English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads | |
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