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English RomanticismCaruselli Chiara 1°B
British romanticism is an artistic, literary and intellectual movement which appeared in Europe at the end of the 18th century and which will find its peak between 1800 and 1850. In Great Britain this movement will be expressed mainly in the litterature. The publication of the poet William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 are generally considered to be the start and end dates of the movement, but the romantic period is not as clearly defined. The rest of the English- speaking world, especially America, will be affected later by romanticism.
Summary:
1. Historical context 2. Characteristics 3. Main exponents: first generation 4. Main exponents: second generation
1.Historical context
The romantic period was one of the major social changes in England. During 1798 and 1832 there was a depopulation of the countryside and a rapid development of industrial cities over time more and more overcrowded.
The movement of so many people in England was the result of two forces: the agricultural revolution, which involved fences that drove workers and their families off the ground, and the industrial revolution that provided them with employment, in factories and in the mills, operated by steam powered machines.
Indeed, Romanticism can be seen as a reaction to the industrial revolution, although it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. The French Revolution had a particularly important influence on the political thinking of many prominent romantic figures even at this time.
The romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th century poetry that is in the Gothic novel and in the novel of sensitivity. That period was the birth of the cemetery poets, who were a number of pre- romantic English poets who wrote in 1740.
Their works are characterized by dark meditations on mortality in the context of the cemetery. It also adds a feeling for the "sublime" and mysterious and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and popular poetry. These concepts are often associated with the Gothic genre.
Some important Gothic poets include Thomas Gray (1716- 1771), his work «Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard» (1751) is the best known product of this type of sensitivity, Robert Blair (1699–1746), author of The Grave (1743), which celebrates the horror of death, and Edward Young (1683- 1765), of whom The Reclaint or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1745) is another example of the cemetery genre.
The sentimental novel is a genre developed during the second half of the eighteenth century. The emotional and intellectual feelings of feeling, sentimentality and sensitivity are highlighted.
Sentimentalism was a trend in both poetry and prose fiction that began in reaction to rationalism. Sentimental novels were based on the emotional response of both their readers and their characters. Few action scenes are present, they leave room for a distressing scene and keep the plot away from you, highlight emotions. The main characters are displayed as models for a refined and sensitive emotional effect. The ability to show feelings showed character and experience and it shaped social life and relationships.
The end of the romantic era is marked in some areas by a new style of realism, which has influenced literature, in particular the novel and drama, painting and even music, through the work of Verismo.
2.Characteristics
One of the many features is the respect for nature. At the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution had come to England. London was full of dirty factories that always spewed black smoke into the air. The cities were overcrowded and full of garbage.
At the sight of what the romantics seek refuge in nature. This love for nature is indicated in the poems that make up Lyrical Ballads, a collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1797. "Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth is a classic romantic poem on spiritual renewal research in nature.
The expression of feelings is fundamental and to express these feelings Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others believed that there were natural laws that the imagination would unconsciously follow through artistic inspiration if left alone. In addition to the rules, originality was essential. The concept of artist who has been able to produce his own original work through this process of creation from nothing, is the key to Romanticism. This idea is often called "romantic originality".
The main themes are the rejection of Enlightenment reason, enhancement of the irrational and the dream, temporal and spatial exoticism, individualism and the concept of people and nation.
The pre-romantics: Robert Burns (1759-1796), William Blake (1757-1827)
Poets of lake: these poets all come from the lake district and are all tied together by friendship. They are William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Robert Southey (1774-1843) and Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
3.Main exponents: first generation
4. Main exponents: second generation
Poets: George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), Percy Shelley (1792- 1822), John Keats (1795- 1821) There most famous poems are Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron 1812), Ozimandias (Shelley 1818), Ode to Psyche (Keats 1819)
Novelists: Walter Scott (1771-1832), Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Jane Austen (1775- 1817). There most famous novels are Ivanoe (Scott 1820), Frankestein (Shelley 1818), Sense and sensibility (Austen 1811)
Web sites: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
British romanticism is an artistic, literary and intellectual movement which appeared in Europe at the end of the 18th century and which will find its peak between 1800 and 1850. In Great Britain this movement will be expressed mainly in the litterature. The publication of the poet William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 are generally considered to be the start and end dates of the movement, but the romantic period is not as clearly defined. The rest of the English- speaking world, especially America, will be affected later by romanticism.
Summary:
1. Historical context 2. Characteristics 3. Main exponents: first generation 4. Main exponents: second generation
1.Historical context
The romantic period was one of the major social changes in England. During 1798 and 1832 there was a depopulation of the countryside and a rapid development of industrial cities over time more and more overcrowded.
The movement of so many people in England was the result of two forces: the agricultural revolution, which involved fences that drove workers and their families off the ground, and the industrial revolution that provided them with employment, in factories and in the mills, operated by steam powered machines.
Indeed, Romanticism can be seen as a reaction to the industrial revolution, although it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. The French Revolution had a particularly important influence on the political thinking of many prominent romantic figures even at this time.
The romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th century poetry that is in the Gothic novel and in the novel of sensitivity. That period was the birth of the cemetery poets, who were a number of pre- romantic English poets who wrote in 1740.
Their works are characterized by dark meditations on mortality in the context of the cemetery. It also adds a feeling for the "sublime" and mysterious and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and popular poetry. These concepts are often associated with the Gothic genre.
Some important Gothic poets include Thomas Gray (1716- 1771), his work «Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard» (1751) is the best known product of this type of sensitivity, Robert Blair (1699–1746), author of The Grave (1743), which celebrates the horror of death, and Edward Young (1683- 1765), of whom The Reclaint or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-1745) is another example of the cemetery genre.
The sentimental novel is a genre developed during the second half of the eighteenth century. The emotional and intellectual feelings of feeling, sentimentality and sensitivity are highlighted.
Sentimentalism was a trend in both poetry and prose fiction that began in reaction to rationalism. Sentimental novels were based on the emotional response of both their readers and their characters. Few action scenes are present, they leave room for a distressing scene and keep the plot away from you, highlight emotions. The main characters are displayed as models for a refined and sensitive emotional effect. The ability to show feelings showed character and experience and it shaped social life and relationships.
The end of the romantic era is marked in some areas by a new style of realism, which has influenced literature, in particular the novel and drama, painting and even music, through the work of Verismo.
2.Characteristics
One of the many features is the respect for nature. At the end of the 18th century, the industrial revolution had come to England. London was full of dirty factories that always spewed black smoke into the air. The cities were overcrowded and full of garbage.
At the sight of what the romantics seek refuge in nature. This love for nature is indicated in the poems that make up Lyrical Ballads, a collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1797. "Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth is a classic romantic poem on spiritual renewal research in nature.
The expression of feelings is fundamental and to express these feelings Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others believed that there were natural laws that the imagination would unconsciously follow through artistic inspiration if left alone. In addition to the rules, originality was essential. The concept of artist who has been able to produce his own original work through this process of creation from nothing, is the key to Romanticism. This idea is often called "romantic originality".
The main themes are the rejection of Enlightenment reason, enhancement of the irrational and the dream, temporal and spatial exoticism, individualism and the concept of people and nation.
The pre-romantics: Robert Burns (1759-1796), William Blake (1757-1827)
Poets of lake: these poets all come from the lake district and are all tied together by friendship. They are William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Robert Southey (1774-1843) and Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
3.Main exponents: first generation
4. Main exponents: second generation
Poets: George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), Percy Shelley (1792- 1822), John Keats (1795- 1821) There most famous poems are Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron 1812), Ozimandias (Shelley 1818), Ode to Psyche (Keats 1819)
Novelists: Walter Scott (1771-1832), Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Jane Austen (1775- 1817). There most famous novels are Ivanoe (Scott 1820), Frankestein (Shelley 1818), Sense and sensibility (Austen 1811)
Web sites: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
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