The document provides an overview of the Romantic Age from 1798-1832. Some key aspects covered include Romantic painters seeking out spectacular nature, French and German writers of the time including Hugo, Goethe, and the Brothers Grimm, and British Romantic poets such as Shelley, Keats, and Byron. The era was one of change with innovations such as gas lights and railroads emerging. Romanticism was characterized by an interest in nature, imagination, and individualism and reflected revolution in France and America.

1. The Romantic Age 1798-1832 “ The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.” Henri Bergson

2. Hadleigh Castle (1829) John Constable

3. The Bard John Martin 1789-1854 Romantic painters sought out the spectacular aspects of nature. The bard stood for vision and imagination.

5. French Novelists AlexandrDumas George Sand

6. French Novelists Victor Hugo

7. German Writers Goethe Heinrich Heine Grimm’s Fairy Tales

8. American Romantic Fervor Nathaniel Hawthorne

9. Coleridge Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads

10. Wordsworth & Coleridge leave specialized, formal language of 18th century “poetic diction” replace with experimental attempts to fit “metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation” “ the real language of men”

11. British Romantic Poetry Shelley Keats Byron

12. Writers Lived in Age of Change 1807 gas street lights, London 20 years later, Age of Electricity 1798-1832, railroads sprang up photography invented typewriter patented

13. Jean Jacques Rousseau Most of what passes for progress is really corruption

14. Rousseau (1712-1778) Forerunner of the Romantic period

15. Literary Forms in Upheaval No important plays new genre “verse dramas” meant to be read, not acted out

16. Gothic Novels

17. Travel Became Commonplace Steamboat & steam locomotive travel-writing essays, poems, & prose narratives Karl Baedeker’s travel guides

18. Romanticism Art, music, & literature reflected the spirit of revolution sweeping France & America

19. Romanticism Characteristics interest in nature, exaltation of imagination protest against “correctness” increased faith in the worth of the individual

20. Historical Background Revolution and Reaction

21. The Industrial Revolution

22. Romanticism” as a Period and a Concept Began 1798 Lyrical Ballads Ends 1832 Sir Walter Scott’s death Scott wrote in a mode he himself called “romance,” “the interest of which turns upon marvelous and uncommon incidents.”

23. The end! Thank you for your attention. Mrs. Lewis