The Romantic Age (Ppt)

THE ROMANTIC AGE(1789-1832)

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THE ROMANTIC AGE(1789-1832)

• The romantic period last about 40 years, from the French Revolution in 1789 to the Reform Act of 1832. It is sometimes called the Age of Revolution: the American Revolution of 1776, and the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity of the French Revolution made it a time of hope and change. So, the poetry of romantics, from Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (1789), is in many ways poetry of war.

• In literature, Romantic writing is mostly poetry: Wordsworth and Coleridge wanted a revolution too, in poetic language and in themes which contrasted with the earlier Augustan age. for Augustans, feelings and imagination were dangerous; for romantics, reason and the intellect were dangerous.

William BlakeBlake’s best-known collection of

poetry Songs of Innocence and

Experience was published in

1794. His poems are simple but

symbolic, the lamb is the symbol

of innocence, the tiger the

symbol of mystery.

William Blake collections

Blake saw the dangers of an industrial society in which individuals were lost, and in his famous poem ‘London’ he calls the system of society ‘mind-forged manacles’.

William Wordsworth His poetry looks inward rather than outward, and in The Prelude, his long autobiographical poem, we read how an individual’s thoughts and feelings are formed. Wordsworth is the main character in most of his poems. He wants ‘to see into the heart of things’, as he says in ‘Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey’. He considers, in ‘Daffodils’, for instance, how the past relates to the present, and The Prelude takes that as its main theme.

The Prelude is an extremely personal and revealing work on the details of Wordsworth's life. Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life.

Coleridge Wordsworth worked closely with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They were both responsible for Lyrical Ballads and for the influential Prefaces to the second edition (1800), but they are very different poets. Coleridge’s poetry is more about extraordinary and supernatural world. There are only four poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Lyrical Ballads, but one of them is his best-known poem, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.

Coleridge poem collections

John KeatsHe was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets. Keats wrote about the nature of literature, the imagination and poetry, and his Letters are important critical works.Many of Keats’s poems are incomplete fragments, but they make a lasting pattern. Keats wrote much of his poetry, both long narrative poems and the famous odes.

Some of John Keats works

Percy Bysshe ShelleyShelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. Shelley felt the death of Keats particularly deeply, and wrote about it in his poem Adonais (1821). Shelley’s poetry is similar to Keats’s poetry in some way; they both wanted to capture deep personal experience. But Percy’s writing is like Blake’s, more political.

Shelley’s collection :

Byron• George Gordon Byron or famously

known as Lord Byron was one of the most influential and, far many, is one of the most typical Romantic poets.

• He was a great influence across Europe in the nineteenth century.

• His hero, Childe Harold, in the long poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, made Byron famous, the first popular bestselling poet, in 1812, when he was 24.

• In Don Juan (1819 – 1824), Byron is more satirical. He invites his readers to be involved in the poem, to laugh with him at his hero, and to question their own values and the values of their society.

Other Romantic Writers• The Romantics were poets of

change. They found constants in nature and in art, but they could also see the new dangers of the modern world, and in many of their writings the security of the individual is threatened.

• The Romantic Period was also a time in which prose writing developed rapidly

Robert Burns

Thomas de Quincey

Mary Shelley• Frankenstein is a novel

written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a living being which becomes a monster.

• Frankenstein is the first modern science fiction novels

Jane AustenJane Austen is different from other

writers of her time, because her

main interest is in the moral,

social, and psychological behavior

of her characters. She writes

mainly about young heroines as

they grow up and search for

personal happiness.

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