O happy living things! No tongue

Their beauty might declare’

A spring of love gushed from my heart

And I blessed them unaware...

The self-same moment I could pray;

And from my neck so free

The Albatross fell off, and sank

Like lead into the sea.

Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Key elements of Romanticism...

•Nostalgia

•Innocence

•Nature

•Emotion/Passion

•Intuition

•Imagination

•Religion/Faith

•Love

•Chivalry

Literature•Key Romantic Authors/Works

•Victor Hugo (FR) - Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miz

•Wordsworth, Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads

•Grimm’s Fairy Tales - nationalistic works that preserve german culture

•Goethe - Faust, Sorrows of the Young Werther

Art - 18th/19th Cent.•Emphasis on

expression, nature, etc.

•Key theme is sublime destructive force of nature

•Document events of the age

•Casper David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)

•Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People

•Theodore Gericault: Raft of the Medusa