THE ROMANTIC AGE Johanna Urm
Romanticism Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement Second half of the 18th century In Western Europe Gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution It was a revolt against norms of the Age of Enlightenment Reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature
Romanticism in England Romantic period goes from the second half of the XVIII century to the first half of the XIX century (George III to Queen Victoria) Was opposite of the Enlightenment: there is a dynamic vision of the world there is a revolution there are sentiments or feelings there is diversity of ideas the most important subjects are biology and, later, genetics 2 periods: 1st and 2nd generation
1st Period William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge The most important concept is nature Life in the countryside Another concept is the "sublime“
2nd Period George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats Were against the society Created sorrow and sufferance Tried to escape from society Refused the real world
Imagination - Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art Nature - meant many things to the Romantics Individualism - importance of the individual The Everyday and the Exotic - everyday and the exotic appeared together
Romantic Hero Romantic hero is a literary archetype Established norms and conventions Is rejected by society Self as the center of his or her own existence Self-criticism
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