The Romantic Age

Anastassia Ševtšenko

XIB

Second half of the 18th century

Western EuropeA revolt against

norms of the Age of Enlightenment

Period of great change in England

Industrial Revolution

NationalismLove of natureIntuition, imagination, and feelingsDistant, faraway exotic placesThe Romantic HeroIdealization of women

Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling."

Starts in 1798 - 1st edition of “Lyrical Ballads” by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

SublimeNature

William Blake, William Wordsworth and

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ever seek to tell thy love,Love that never told can be;

For the gentle wind doth moveSilently, invisibly.

 I told my love, I told my love,

I told her all my heart,Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.

Ah! she did depart! 

Soon after she was gone from me,A traveller came by,Silently, invisibly:

He took her with a sigh.

• Created sorrow and sufferance

• Tried to escape from society

• John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron

Music, when soft voices die,Vibrates in the memory;

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,Live within the sense they quicken.

 Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,Love itself shall slumber on.

Rejected by societySelf – critisismRejects establishednormsMelancholyIsolationThe center of his or

her own existence

Examples: Werther, Don Juan, Mr Darcy

Thank you for listening!

http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/loves_secret.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0858004.html

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