1. The Romantic Age Ann Margit Sepp Form 11b Tallinn French School
Karoly Telepy “Romantic Landscape”

2. Socio-political reasons
Awakening of class-consciousness
Religious oppression
Colonial policy
Industrial revolution
French revolution
Defeat of Napoleon

3. Characteristics of Romanticism
... In literature
Nationalism
Unknown, far away places - exoticism
Love of nature
Love of the common man
The supernatural
Emotionality
The romantic hero

4. The Romantic Hero Rejected by society
Has himself as the center of his existence
Wanderlust, melancholy
Regret for his actions, self-criticism
Examples:
Mr Darcy, Don Juan, Werther

5. The two generations In Britain only First generation
Lake poets: W. Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge
Second generation
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats

6. Romanticism: mainland Europe
Germany
France
Russia

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