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1. The Romantic Age
By:
Sistiono Pambudi
Tsasa Yusac Ersanaz
Ahmad Munir
Asri Budiati
Erys Sandra

2. Introduction
• The romantic period lasts about forty years,
from French Revolution in 1789 to the Reform
Act of 1832
• It is also called as “The Age of Revolution” and
the spirit of ‘liberty, equality, and fraternity’ of
French Revolution made it a time of hope and
change.

3. • William Wordsworth in The Prelude wrote
“bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”. It shows
the hope for the future when French politics
changed.
• Reign of Terror began in 1793, the period of
Napoleon followed rapidly, and by the early
1800s most of Europe was at the war against
France.

4. • The poetry of the Romantics is in many ways
poetry of war.
• Society was changing, becoming industrial
rather than agricultural, the new middle class
became powerful and there were a lof of
social and political problems.
• The worst of which was the Peterloo massacre
of 1819, when the soldiers attacked a large
group of protesters.

5. • In literature, Romantic writing is mostly
poetry.
• The poets wanted a revolution too (in poetic
language and in theme which contrasted with
the Augustan age).
• Because of that, there is a statement “Then
the head controlled the heart; now the heart
controlled the head”

6. • In Romantic age, reason and imagination were
dangerous.
• In fact the name Romantic was only given to
the period later, when the spirit of freedom
and hope could be recognized as different.
• In Europe, music and art, politics and
philosophy were all stirred by the Romantic
spirit.
• In Britain, it was limited to a few poets, but
they changed the face of English Literature
FOR EVER.

7. William Blake
• William Blake had a very individual view of the
world and his poetic style and ideas contrast with
the Augustan world.
• His best-known collection of poetry is Songs of
Innocence and Experience (1794).
• Blake’s poems are simple but symbolic and his
later poems are very complex symbolic texts.
• His voice in the early 1790s is the conscience of
the Romantic Age.
• Another poem of Blake is “London”