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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       
1794
 
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Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism        
1794
 
    
In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego       
1794
 
     
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'        
William Blake, by Thomas Phillips, 1807
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1795
 
    
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity       
1796
 
    
US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France       
1797
 
    
Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock'       
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Peter Vandyke, 1795
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1798
 
    
US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context       
1798
 
     
English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement        
1798
 
     
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads