The Prelude (In Our Time)
1850 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest long poems in the English language – The Prelude. Begun in Northern Germany during the terrible winter of 1798 by a young and dreadfully homesick William Wordsworth, The Prelude was to be his masterpiece - an epic retelling of his own life and the foundation stone of English Romanticism. In language of achi
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1850
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)