Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

1. Poe uses death in all areas of his writing to accomplish a feeling of horror, grief, desolation, and mysteriousness • Tell Tale Heart uses the senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) to place the reader in the heart of the story Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

2. Berlioz loved to write about his inspiration, and would often burn his own work if it didn’t measure up • Berlioz was profoundly impacted by Goethe’s Faust Louis Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

3. In many ways he embodied an archetypal Romantic character: a lonely genius doomed by that most Romantic disease, tuberculosis, a visionary musician too refined for the public acclaim Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

4. “A woman must not wish to compose – there never was one able to do it” • That a woman of her abilities and talents would say this speaks volumes about the difficulties facing women composers in the nineteenth century Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)

5. Venice was the inspiration of some of Turner's finest work • Wherever he visited, Turner studied the effects of sea and sky in every kind of weather J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)

6. Very much a nationalist, one of Goya’s most famous series was the eighty-five prints called The Disasters of War • The series depicts travesties witnessed during Spain's struggle for independence from France Francisco Goya (1746-1828)