Romantic Age (1798-1832)

1. ROMANTIC
PERIOD
1798-1832
Ravindra Singh
Assistant Professor
School of Arts & Humanities
Career Point University, Kota

2. The Romantic Period in English
literature is dated as beginning in 1798
(the publication of William
Wordsworth’s and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads)—and as
ending in 1832, the year of the passage
of the Reform Bill.

3. Wordsworth Coleridge

4. John Keats P B Shelley Lord Byron

5. The Romantic Movement began
as a reaction against the dry
intellectuality and artificiality
of the Pseudo-classics.

6. “Return to Nature”

7. The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages stirred the
imagination of the Romantics who
turned back t these ages for theme
and inspiration.

8. • All romantic literature is subjective.
• It is an expression of the inner urges of the soul of the
artist.
• Romantic poetry is “a spontaneous overflow of powerful
passions” and has a strong “organic sensibility.”
• A Romantic poet is dissatisfied with the circumstances of
his own life.
• Zest for the beauty