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.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1850
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)