This document outlines the key characteristics of Romantic poetry, including: - It originated in Europe in the late 18th century as a reaction against Enlightenment ideals. - Wordsworth and Coleridge helped define it in their 1798 publication Lyrical Ballads. - It emphasizes emotion over reason and challenges neoclassical conventions, relying more on imagination than intellect. - Imagination, melancholy, medievalism, Hellenism, supernaturalism, and subjectivity are hallmarks of Romantic poetry.

1. Characteristic of Romantic poetry
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2. Romantic Poetry
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the romantic era , an
artistic ,literary, musical and intellectual movement
that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th
century .it involved a reaction against Prevailing
Enlightenment ideas of the 18th Century, and lasted
from 1800 to1850 approximately.

3. In early 19th century
England , the poet
William Wordsworth
defined his and
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge ‘s innovative
poetry in his preface
to Lyrical Ballads 1798.
WORDSWORTH
COLERIDGE

4. Sublime
One of the most
important
concepts in
romantic poetry.
CHARACTERISTIC OF ROMANTIC POETRY

5. Reaction against neoclassicism
• Romantic poetry contrasts with neoclassicism poetry
,which was the product of intellect and reason ,while
romantic poetry is more the product of emotion .
• Romantic Poetry at the beginning of the nineteenth
century was a reaction against the set standards
,conventions of eighteenth century poetry.
• According to W.J.Long “The Romantic Movement was
marked ,and is always marked ,by a strong reaction and
protest against the bondage of rule and custom which in
science and theology as well as literature ,generally tend
to fetter the free human spirit”.

6. IMAGINATION
Belief in the importance of the imagination is a
distinctive feature of romantic poets such as john
Keats ,Samuel Taylor Coleridge and P.B.Shelley,unlike
the neoclassical poets.
Keats said ,” I am certain of nothing but of the holiness
of the heart’s affection and the truth of imagination
–what the imagination seizes as beauty must be
truth.”

7. CONTINUE…………
• For wordsworth and William Blake ,as well as
victor Hugo and Alessandria Manzoni, the
imagination is a spiritual force is related to
morality ,and they believed that literature
,especially poetry, could improve the world.
The secret of the art ,Blake claimed is the
capacity to imagine to define imagination ,in
his poem “auguries of innocence

8. MELANCHOLY
• Melancholy occupies a prominent place in
romantic poetry, and is an important source of
inspiration for the romantic poets . In “ODE TO A
NIGHTINGAL ,”
• Keats wrote : for many a time have been half in
love with easeful death ,called him soft names in
many a mused rhyme ‘to take into the air my
quiet breath ; now more than ever seems it rich
to die, to cease upon the midnight with no pain.

9. MEDIEVALISM
• Romantic poetry was attracted to nostalgia
and medievalism is another important
characteristic of romantic poetry, especially in
the works of john Keats and Coleridge .
• They were attracted to exotic remote and
obscure places ,and so they were more
attracted to middle age than to their own age

10. HELLENISM
• The world of classical Greece was important to
the romantics . John Keats's poetry is full of
allusions to the art , literature and culture of
Greek ,as for example in “ode on a Grecian
Urn”.

11. SUPERNATURALISM
• Most of the romantic poets used supernatural
elements in their poetry. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge is the leading romantic poet in this
regard and “Kubla Khan”is full of supernatural
elements .

12. SUBJECTIVITY
• Romantic poetry is the poetry of sentiments
,emotion ,and imagination.
• Romantic poetry opposed the objectivity of
neoclassical poetry.
• Neoclassical poets avoided describing their
personal emotion in their poetry, unlike the
romantics.

13. Work cited
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