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ROMANTIC AGEINTRODUCTION

ROMANTIC AGE•ROMANTIC ERA / ROMANTIC PERIOD•ARTISTIC , INTELLECTUAL AND LITERARY MOVEMENT•EUROPE – LATE 18TH CENTURY •PEAK- 1800 TO 1850•REACTION OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

ROMANTIC AGE• EMPHASIS ON EMOTION AND INDIVIDUALISM•GLORIFICATION OF PAST AND NATURE• POETS AND WRITERS BROKE FREE FROM NEO-CLASSICAL RULES• TURNED TO MEDIEVAL AGE•SUBJECT MATTERS-NATURE AND COMMON MAN

INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS WILLIAM BLAKELONDON, ENGLANDPOET, ARTIST, PRINTERROMANTIC POETRY

INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS WILLIAM WORDSWORTHCUMBERLAND, ENGLANDPOETROMANTIC POETRY/LITERATURE

INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDEVON, ENGLANDPOETROMANTIC POETRY/LITERATURE

INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS GEORGE GORDON BYRONLONDON, ENGLANDPOETROMANTIC POETRY

INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSUSSEX, ENGLANDPOETROMANTIC POETRY

INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS JOHN KEATSLONDON, ENGLANDPOETROMANTIC POETRY

ROMANTIC AGECHARACTERISTICS

CHARACTERISTICS LOVE OF NATURE

ALL LOVERS OF NATUREDISCOVERED A NEW BEAUTY AND WONDER IN THE WORLD MINUTELY OBSERVED NATURE IN ALL HER ASPECTSEXPRESSED IN POETRY THEIR EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO HER BEAUTY WORDSWORTH WAS THE FIRST OF THE ROMANTICS TO DISCOVER A NEW WONDER IN NATURE

CHARACTERISTICS INTEREST IN THE PAST

PRESSURE OF PRESENT REALITY FIND “MODES OF DELIVERANCE FROM THE DEAD WEIGHT OF ROUTINE.”THE PAST WAS REMOTE FROM PRESENT REALITYREMOTENESS AND DISTANCE THAT LENDS A WONDER AND ENCHANTMENT TO LIFE

CHARACTERISTICS MYSTERY

SEEKS THE STRANGE AND THE MYSTERIOUS REVEALS THE WONDER OF THINGS REMOVED FROM REAL LIFEMORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH THAN ARE PERCEIVED IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF LIFEFEELING THAT AROUSES THEIR CURIOSITY IN THE UNEARTHLY AND THE SUPERNATURAL

CHARACTERISTICS INTEREST IN HUMANITY

DEALT WITH THE LIVES OF COMMON MEN AND WOMENGLORIFY THE INNOCENCE AND SIMPLICITY OF THE COMMON MANDOCTRINES OF “FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND BROTHERHOOD INSPIRED THE POETS OF THIS AGEWORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SHELLEY AND BYRON WERE HUMANISTS

CHARACTERISTICS FREEDOM OF IMAGINATION

IMAGINATION IS THE CARDINAL CHARACTERISTIC OF ROMANTICISM “FREEING OR UNFETTERING OF PASSIONS OR EMOTIONS IN ART AND LETTERS.”ARTIST IS NOT BOUND DOWN BY ANY LAW APART FROM THE LAW OF HIS OWN ARTISTIC GENIUSA REVOLT AGAINST THE STEREOTYPED CONVENTIONS OF ART

CHARACTERISTICS SUBJECTIVITY AND SPONTANEITY

ROMANTICS WERE CONCERNED NOT SO MUCH WITH THE EXTERNAL FACTS OF LIFETHEIR OWN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONSPOETRY TO THEM WAS THE SPONTANEOUS OVERFLOW OF POWERFUL FEELINGSPOET’S OWN EMOTIONS THAT FINDS EXPRESSION IN HIS POETRY

CHARACTERISTICS LOVE FOR THE ELEMENTAL SIMPLICITIES OF LIFE

ROMANTICISM IS CHARACTERIZED BY “AN INSTINCT FOR THE ELEMENTAL SIMPLICITIES OF LIFE.”ROUSSEAU’S CALL “RETURN TO NATURE”PART OF A LARGER NATURALISM THAT SOUGHT TO BRING PEOPLE BACK TO THE BOSOM OF NATURERECLAIM US FROM SUPERFLUOUS CONVENTIONS

CHARACTERISTICS REGENERATION OF POETIC STYLE

POETIC STYLE ACQUIRED A RICH VARIETY IN THE HANDS OF THE ROMANTICSTHEIR INTEREST IN THE PAST LED THEM TO EXPERIMENT WITH OLD METRES AND POETIC FORMSUNLIKE NEO-CLASSICAL THEY EMPHASIZED ON MEDIEVAL WRITERS

ROMANTIC AGECONCLUSION

POETRY OF REVOLT• ITS WIDEST SENSE – IN SUBJECT AND IN FORM.•NO MORE RULES, IF THESE RULES MEAN BONDS AND CONFINEMENT• EVERY POET IS ACCUSTOMED TO WRITE AS THE SPIRIT MOVES HIM• THIS ENTHUSIASTIC SPIRIT OF LIBERTY LED TO AN ENORMOUS OUTPUT

OF POETRY, SOME OF THE HIGHEST MERIT•NOT EVEN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE CAN SURPASS THIS PERIOD IN

ABUNDANCE.

POETRY OF SIMPLICITY•WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S PREFACE TO THE LYRICAL BALLADS•ASSISTANCE OF COLERIDGE, PUBLISHED IN 1798• “CHOOSE INCIDENTS AND SITUATIONS FROM COMMON LIFE,

AND TO RELATE OR DESCRIBE THEM THROUGHOUT IN A SELECTION OF THE LANGUAGE REALLY USED BY MEN.”

POETRY OF MAN• POPE SAID THAT “THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN.”•COMMON/ORDIANRY MAN•UNHINGED EMOTIONS• THE ROMANTIC POETS CARRIED THIS THEORY TO ITS GREATEST

DEVELOPMENT.

POETRY OF NATURE•  IN NATURE ROMANTIC POETS FOUND THEIR INITIAL

INSPIRATION. •  NATURE WAS A FAIRLY DOMINANT THEME AND OCCUPIED A

VERY PROMINENT ROLE IN THE POETRY•NATURE AS SOMETHING PURE AND UNCORRUPTED AND,

THEREFORE, ALMOST SPIRITUAL•  THE EXPLORATION OF SELF TAKES PLACE PERFECTLY WHEN

EMBEDDED IN THE NATURAL SETTING

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