2. What is Romanticism?
Romanticism has very little
to do with things popularly
thought of as "romantic,"
although love may
occasionally be the subject
of Romantic art.
Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical
movement that redefined the fundamental ways in
which people in Western cultures thought about
themselves and about their world.
3. A Revolution of the Arts???
Yes, indeed! When Americans were
fighting for their freedom,
heads were rolling on the guillotine of
the French Revolution,
artists, musicians, philosophers, and poets were
revolutionizing their areas as well as they moved from the
Neo-classical to the Romantic.
and
7. Poets of the Romantic Era
Coleridge
Keats Shelley
Wordsworth
Byron
These five poets
are the greats of
the Romantic
poets. We will
study the works
of three of them,
William
Wordsworth,
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, and
Percy Bysshe
Shelley.
8. Characteristics of Romanticism
1. Love of nature in all its aspects.
2. Concern for the common man.
3. Interest in the imagination, especially the
supernatural.
4. Rebellion against authority.
5. Interest in past legends.
6. Involvement with the lonely and
melancholic, especially in contemplation
of eventual death.
9. Pay close attention!!!
• Those characteristics will be VERY
important to this entire poetry unit.
• We will go over each one in detail in the
Live session to make sure you understand
each one.
• You are going to LOVE this unit!
10. Pay close attention!!!
• Those characteristics will be VERY
important to this entire poetry unit.
• We will go over each one in detail in the
Live session to make sure you understand
each one.
• You are going to LOVE this unit!
