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Romanticism

An age of Poetry

Richa Shrivastava

M.A previous

The Romantic Movement

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven

-Wordsworth

As defined by Merriam Webster, dictionary. 2 A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms.

Features Nature is visible spirit; spirit is invisible nature.

• Friedrich Schelling
• The Romantics changed reason and diction defining style of Age of Reason to a imaginative and emotional style which emphasized on nature.
• Philosophy of Kant and Schelling became prime reason of the development of Romantic movement.
• The essence of Romanticism; literature must reflect all that is spontaneous and unaffected in nature and in man.
• The absence of satiric tone in Romantics marks them contrast to the poets of 18th^ centaury.
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The second creative period of English Literature

Influenced by the poets of Transition

period.

The poets like James Thomson,

William Collins, Thomas Grey,

Thomas Percy, James Macpherson,

Blake, Burns all paved the way for

Romantic poetry which attained its

with the publication of Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth and S.T

Coleridge in 1798.

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“The principal object, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from

common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible in a selection of

language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring

of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual

aspect”

- Preface to the second edition of the lyrical Ballads, 1800

Age of Reason Vs Age of Romance

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Age of Reason

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William Blake (1757-1827) Robert Burns (1759-1796) Walter Scott (1771-1832) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) S.T Coleridge(1772-1834) Robert Southey (1774-1843) Lord Byron ( George Gordon)(1788-

P.B Shelly (1792-1822) John Keats (1795-1821) Also known as the Lake poets

Poets of the

Romantic Era

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The poets who are milestones, in the

journey of Romantic Era

• William Blake
• (^) William Wordsworth
• (^) S.T Coleridge
• (^) Lord Byron
• P.B Shelly
• (^) John Keats

Fig; Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,

by German Romantic artist Caspar

David Friedrich.

ADD A FOOTER William Blake Born- 28th^ November 1757, London England Died-12th^ August 1827, London England

• A visionary poet who was also an

artist and engraver, with a

particular interest in childhood

and a strong hatred of mechanical

reason and industrialization.

• Had a reliance on the imagination,

idealization of childhood, freedom

of thought and expression, and an

idealization of nature.

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Fig; A Walking Tour of Cumbria, by

S.T Coleridge

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