Romantic Age (1800-1850)

1. Romantic Age (1800-1850)
(Against neoclassicism age)
Prepared by: Haveen Essa
Assigned by: Khorsheed M. Rasheed

2. Contents
• Socio-historical background.
• Characteristics of Romantism.
• Famous Writers and Literary works.
• First generation of Romantics.
• Second generation of Romantics.

3. Socio-historical background
• It’s regarded as having transformed artistic styles and
practices.
• The word cover’s a wide and varied range of artist and
practices.
• It’s a retrospective term, applied by later literary, art
and musical historians.
• It was a European phenomenon, particularly powerful
in Britain, France and Germany, but also affecting
countries such as Italy, Spain and Poland. There was
also, to some extent, and American version of the
movement.

4. • Characteristics of Romantism
1. Individuality/ Democracy/ Personal Freedom.
2. Spiritual /Supernatural Elements.
3. Nature as a Teacher/ Religious Response to Nature.
4. Interest in Past History / Ancient Greek and Roman Elements.
5. Celebration of the Simple Life.
6. Interest in the Rustic/ Personal Life/ Subjectivity.
7. Interest in Folk Traditions.
8. Use of Common Language.
9. One Sided/ Opinionated / Optimism.
10.Idealized Women.
11.Frequent Use of Personification.
12.Examination of the Poet’s Inner Feelings and Powerful
Imagination.

5. • First generation of Romantics.
1. William Blake (1757-1827)
• The Chimney Sweeper/ (part one 1789- part two 1794)
• The Tyger (1794)
• London (1794)
2. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• The prelude (1799)
• My heart leaps up (1802)
• The Solitary Reaper (1807)
3. Samuel Tayler Coleridge (1772-1834)
• Christabel (part one 1797 – part two 1800)
• The Rime of the Ancyent Marinar (1798)
• Kupla Khan, or a vision in a dream (1816)
Famous Writers and Literary works.

6. • Second generation of Romantics.
1. Lord Bayron (1788-1824)
• Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
• She wolks in beauty (1814)
• Don Jhon (1819-1824)
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
• Queen Map (1813)
• The cloud (1820)
• Ode to the west wind (1820)
3. John Keats (1795-1820)
• Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
• To Autumn (1819)
• ‘’When I have fear that I may cease to be’’ (written
1818 – Published 1848)
Famous Writers and Literary works.

7. THANKS!
Does anyone have any questions?