presentation on romanticism (for my students)

1. ROMANTICISM
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2. Kinds of poetry
• narrative poetry
• dramatic poetry
• lyric poems (sonnets, the ode, the elegy)

3. Romaticism
• artists, poets, writers, musicians + political,
philosophical and social thinkers of the late 18th and
early to mid 19th century, e.g.
 music – Beethowen, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin,
Berlioz, Wagner, Paganini, Liszt, ...
 visual arts – Delacroix and Gericault (France), Blake,
Turner and Constable (Britain), Hudson River School in
the USA
 philosophers – Fichte and Shelling (German idealism)
 literature – Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and
Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA), Goethe (Germany),
Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo and Stendhal (France),
Pushkin and Lermontov (Russia) ...

4. Romantic period
focus on:
imagination, intuition, emotion, individual
sensibility;
the eccentric and the singular
exotic, mysterious and distant
(untamed)nature and solitude
native traditions – folk culture, national and
ethnic cultural origins, the medieval era
the genius, the hero and the exceptional figure
in general

5. Romantic period
• writers tended to
regard themselves as
the most interesting
subject for literary
creation
• the impact of new
forces (esp. French
Revolution) – promise
of liberty, equality
and fraternity
• a variety of forms
such as:
ballad
the sonnet
ottava rima
blank verse
Spenserian stanza
the metrical romance

6. Romantic period
Two generations of writers:
The First Great Romanticists - Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Lamb, ...

7. Romantic period
Two generations of writers:
The Younger Romanticists - Keats, Shelley,
Lord Byron (and Mery Shelley)

8. William Blake
•Songs of
Innocence
•The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell
•Songs of
Experience

9. Taylor Coleridge
•The Rime of
Ancient Mariner
•Christabel
•Kubla Khan
•Meditative Poems
in Blank Verse

10. William
Wordsworth
•Lyrical Ballads
(one of the most
famous ‘Lines
Written a Few
Miles Above
Tintern Abbey’)
•The Prelude
•Ode: Intimations
of Immortality
from Recollections
of Early Childhood

11. Sir Walter Scott
•The Lady of the
Lake – poem
•Ivanhoe - novel

12. George Gordon,
Lord Byron
•Hours of Idleness
•Don Juan
•Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage
•Manfred
•Cain

13. Percy Bysshe
Shelley
•Prometheus
Unbound
•Adonais
•The Cloud
•To a Skylark
•Ode to the West
Wind

14. John Keats
•Ode on a Grecian
Urn
•Ode to a
Nightingale