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- 3. ROMANTIC AGE •ROMANTIC ERA/ ROMANTIC PERIOD •ARTISTIC , INTELLECTUAL AND LITERARY MOVEMENT •EUROPE – LATE 18TH CENTURY •PEAK- 1800 TO 1850 •REACTION OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- 4. ROMANTIC AGE •EMPHASIS ONEMOTION AND INDIVIDUALISM •GLORIFICATION OF PAST AND NATURE •POETS AND WRITERS BROKE FREE FROM NEO-CLASSICAL RULES •TURNED TO MEDIEVAL AGE •SUBJECT MATTERS-NATURE AND COMMON MAN
- 5. INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS WILLIAM BLAKE LONDON, ENGLAND POET,ARTIST, PRINTER ROMANTIC POETRY
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- 7. INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DEVON,ENGLAND POET ROMANTIC POETRY/LITERATURE
- 8. INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS GEORGE GORDON BYRON LONDON,ENGLAND POET ROMANTIC POETRY
- 9. INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY SUSSEX,ENGLAND POET ROMANTIC POETRY
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- 12. CHARACTERISTICS LOVE OF NATURE ALLLOVERS OF NATURE DISCOVERED A NEW BEAUTY AND WONDER IN THE WORLD MINUTELY OBSERVED NATURE IN ALL HER ASPECTS EXPRESSED IN POETRY THEIR EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO HER BEAUTY WORDSWORTH WAS THE FIRST OF THE ROMANTICS TO DISCOVER A NEW WONDER IN NATURE
- 13. CHARACTERISTICS INTEREST IN THEPAST PRESSURE OF PRESENT REALITY FIND “MODES OF DELIVERANCE FROM THE DEAD WEIGHT OF ROUTINE.” THE PAST WAS REMOTE FROM PRESENT REALITY REMOTENESS AND DISTANCE THAT LENDS A WONDER AND ENCHANTMENT TO LIFE
- 14. CHARACTERISTICS MYSTERY SEEKS THE STRANGEAND THE MYSTERIOUS REVEALS THE WONDER OF THINGS REMOVED FROM REAL LIFE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH THAN ARE PERCEIVED IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF LIFE FEELING THAT AROUSES THEIR CURIOSITY IN THE UNEARTHLY AND THE SUPERNATURAL
- 15. CHARACTERISTICS INTEREST IN HUMANITY DEALTWITH THE LIVES OF COMMON MEN AND WOMEN GLORIFY THE INNOCENCE AND SIMPLICITY OF THE COMMON MAN DOCTRINES OF “FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND BROTHERHOOD INSPIRED THE POETS OF THIS AGE WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SHELLEY AND BYRON WERE HUMANISTS
- 16. CHARACTERISTICS FREEDOM OF IMAGINATION IMAGINATIONIS THE CARDINAL CHARACTERISTIC OF ROMANTICISM “FREEING OR UNFETTERING OF PASSIONS OR EMOTIONS IN ART AND LETTERS.” ARTIST IS NOT BOUND DOWN BY ANY LAW APART FROM THE LAW OF HIS OWN ARTISTIC GENIUS A REVOLT AGAINST THE STEREOTYPED CONVENTIONS OF ART
- 17. CHARACTERISTICS SUBJECTIVITY AND SPONTANEITY ROMANTICSWERE CONCERNED NOT SO MUCH WITH THE EXTERNAL FACTS OF LIFE THEIR OWN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS POETRY TO THEM WAS THE SPONTANEOUS OVERFLOW OF POWERFUL FEELINGS POET’S OWN EMOTIONS THAT FINDS EXPRESSION IN HIS POETRY
- 18. CHARACTERISTICS LOVE FOR THEELEMENTAL SIMPLICITIES OF LIFE ROMANTICISM IS CHARACTERIZED BY “AN INSTINCT FOR THE ELEMENTAL SIMPLICITIES OF LIFE.” ROUSSEAU’S CALL “RETURN TO NATURE” PART OF A LARGER NATURALISM THAT SOUGHT TO BRING PEOPLE BACK TO THE BOSOM OF NATURE RECLAIM US FROM SUPERFLUOUS CONVENTIONS
- 19. CHARACTERISTICS REGENERATION OF POETICSTYLE POETIC STYLE ACQUIRED A RICH VARIETY IN THE HANDS OF THE ROMANTICS THEIR INTEREST IN THE PAST LED THEM TO EXPERIMENT WITH OLD METRES AND POETIC FORMS UNLIKE NEO-CLASSICAL THEY EMPHASIZED ON MEDIEVAL WRITERS
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- 21. POETRY OF REVOLT •ITSWIDEST SENSE – IN SUBJECT AND IN FORM. •NO MORE RULES, IF THESE RULES MEAN BONDS AND CONFINEMENT •EVERY POET IS ACCUSTOMED TO WRITE AS THE SPIRIT MOVES HIM • THIS ENTHUSIASTIC SPIRIT OF LIBERTY LED TO AN ENORMOUS OUTPUT OF POETRY, SOME OF THE HIGHEST MERIT •NOT EVEN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE CAN SURPASS THIS PERIOD IN ABUNDANCE.
- 22. POETRY OF SIMPLICITY •WILLIAMWORDSWORTH’S PREFACE TO THE LYRICAL BALLADS •ASSISTANCE OF COLERIDGE, PUBLISHED IN 1798 • “CHOOSE INCIDENTS AND SITUATIONS FROM COMMON LIFE, AND TO RELATE OR DESCRIBE THEM THROUGHOUT IN A SELECTION OF THE LANGUAGE REALLY USED BY MEN.”
- 23. POETRY OF MAN •POPESAID THAT “THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN.” •COMMON/ORDIANRY MAN •UNHINGED EMOTIONS •THE ROMANTIC POETS CARRIED THIS THEORY TO ITS GREATEST DEVELOPMENT.
- 24. POETRY OF NATURE •IN NATURE ROMANTIC POETS FOUND THEIR INITIAL INSPIRATION. • NATURE WAS A FAIRLY DOMINANT THEME AND OCCUPIED A VERY PROMINENT ROLE IN THE POETRY •NATURE AS SOMETHING PURE AND UNCORRUPTED AND, THEREFORE, ALMOST SPIRITUAL • THE EXPLORATION OF SELF TAKES PLACE PERFECTLY WHEN EMBEDDED INTHE NATURAL SETTING
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