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BACKGROUND
4 Artistic and Philosophical
Movement

4 Late mth Century ʹ Mid mth

Century
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4 European, to lesser extent

American

4 Response to Industrialization

4 Related to the rise of Nationalism

 CHARACTERISITCS
4 IMAGINATION
4 NATURE
4 INTUITION
4 IDEALISM
4 INSPIRATION
4 INDIVIDUALISM
 IMAGINATION
4 Displaced the supremacy of reason

4 primary facility for creating art and searching truth

and beauty

4 Allows us to reconcile differences and opposites

4 Emphasizes intuition, instincts, and feelings

 NATURE
4 Is a work of art

4 Is a source of subject and image

4 Is a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization

4 Is the opposite of the scientific mechanical

4 Allows for meditation and contemplation

 INTUITION
4 Romantics placed value on ͞intuition,͟ or feeling and
instincts, over reason.

4 Emotions were important in Romantic art.

4 British Romantic William Wordsworth described

poetry as ͞the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings.͟
 IDEALISM
4 Idealism is the concept that we can make the world a
better place.

4 Idealism refers to any theory that emphasizes the

spirit, the mind, or language over matter ʹ thought
has a crucial role in making the world the way it is.
 INDIVIDUALISM
4 Is emphasized Ͷ the unique, the eccentric

4 Opposed the typology of Neoclassicism

4 Becomes the ͞heroartist͟

4 Must create his/her own way to live

 INDIVIDUALISM
4 Is emphasized Ͷ the unique, the eccentric

4 Opposed the typology of Neoclassicism

4 Becomes the ͞heroartist͟

4 Must create his/her own way to live

 Romantic literature
The epitome of Romantic literature is the lyric
poem, which is written in the first person:

4 Expresses the poet͛s innermost feelings and

temperament

4 Reveals reactions to events the poet has

experienced
 ROMANTIC POETRY
4 Free of Neoclassicism͛s mechanical rules
4 Bold, rather than restrained
4 Suggestive, rather than precisely clear
4 Experimental, rather than consigned to rules of
composition and genre
4 Emphasized the feelings of the individual artist as
creator (mstperson lyric)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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LORD BRYON
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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PERCY BYSHE SHELLEY
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mOHN KEATS
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