Brief introduction of the Romantic Age and its characteristics.
Includes:
2 slide introduction
Influential People of the Romantic Age
In dept Characteristics
Concluding Characteristics
End
3. ROMANTIC AGE
•ROMANTIC ERA / ROMANTIC PERIOD
•ARTISTIC , INTELLECTUAL AND LITERARY MOVEMENT
•EUROPE – LATE 18TH CENTURY
•PEAK- 1800 TO 1850
•REACTION OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
4. ROMANTIC AGE
•EMPHASIS ON EMOTION AND INDIVIDUALISM
•GLORIFICATION OF PAST AND NATURE
•POETS AND WRITERS BROKE FREE FROM NEO-CLASSICAL RULES
•TURNED TO MEDIEVAL AGE
•SUBJECT MATTERS-NATURE AND COMMON MAN
12. CHARACTERISTICS
LOVE OF NATURE
ALL LOVERS OF NATURE
DISCOVERED A NEW BEAUTY AND WONDER IN THE WORLD
MINUTELY OBSERVED NATURE IN ALL HER ASPECTS
EXPRESSED IN POETRY THEIR EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO HER BEAUTY
WORDSWORTH WAS THE FIRST OF THE ROMANTICS TO DISCOVER A NEW WONDER IN NATURE
13. CHARACTERISTICS
INTEREST IN THE PAST
PRESSURE OF PRESENT REALITY
FIND “MODES OF DELIVERANCE FROM THE DEAD WEIGHT OF ROUTINE.”
THE PAST WAS REMOTE FROM PRESENT REALITY
REMOTENESS AND DISTANCE THAT LENDS A WONDER AND ENCHANTMENT TO LIFE
14. CHARACTERISTICS
MYSTERY
SEEKS THE STRANGE AND THE MYSTERIOUS
REVEALS THE WONDER OF THINGS REMOVED FROM REAL LIFE
MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH THAN ARE PERCEIVED IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF LIFE
FEELING THAT AROUSES THEIR CURIOSITY IN THE UNEARTHLY AND THE SUPERNATURAL
15. CHARACTERISTICS
INTEREST IN HUMANITY
DEALT WITH THE LIVES OF COMMON MEN AND WOMEN
GLORIFY THE INNOCENCE AND SIMPLICITY OF THE COMMON MAN
DOCTRINES OF “FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND BROTHERHOOD INSPIRED THE POETS OF THIS AGE
WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SHELLEY AND BYRON WERE HUMANISTS
16. CHARACTERISTICS
FREEDOM OF IMAGINATION
IMAGINATION IS THE CARDINAL CHARACTERISTIC OF ROMANTICISM
“FREEING OR UNFETTERING OF PASSIONS OR EMOTIONS IN ART AND LETTERS.”
ARTIST IS NOT BOUND DOWN BY ANY LAW APART FROM THE LAW OF HIS OWN ARTISTIC GENIUS
A REVOLT AGAINST THE STEREOTYPED CONVENTIONS OF ART
17. CHARACTERISTICS
SUBJECTIVITY AND SPONTANEITY
ROMANTICS WERE CONCERNED NOT SO MUCH WITH THE EXTERNAL FACTS OF LIFE
THEIR OWN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
POETRY TO THEM WAS THE SPONTANEOUS OVERFLOW OF POWERFUL FEELINGS
POET’S OWN EMOTIONS THAT FINDS EXPRESSION IN HIS POETRY
18. CHARACTERISTICS
LOVE FOR THE ELEMENTAL SIMPLICITIES OF LIFE
ROMANTICISM IS CHARACTERIZED BY “AN INSTINCT FOR THE ELEMENTAL SIMPLICITIES OF LIFE.”
ROUSSEAU’S CALL “RETURN TO NATURE”
PART OF A LARGER NATURALISM THAT SOUGHT TO BRING PEOPLE BACK TO THE BOSOM OF NATURE
RECLAIM US FROM SUPERFLUOUS CONVENTIONS
19. CHARACTERISTICS
REGENERATION OF POETIC STYLE
POETIC STYLE ACQUIRED A RICH VARIETY IN THE HANDS OF THE ROMANTICS
THEIR INTEREST IN THE PAST LED THEM TO EXPERIMENT WITH OLD METRES AND POETIC FORMS
UNLIKE NEO-CLASSICAL THEY EMPHASIZED ON MEDIEVAL WRITERS
21. POETRY OF REVOLT
•ITS WIDEST SENSE – IN SUBJECT AND IN FORM.
•NO MORE RULES, IF THESE RULES MEAN BONDS AND CONFINEMENT
•EVERY POET IS ACCUSTOMED TO WRITE AS THE SPIRIT MOVES HIM
• THIS ENTHUSIASTIC SPIRIT OF LIBERTY LED TO AN ENORMOUS OUTPUT OF POETRY,
SOME OF THE HIGHEST MERIT
•NOT EVEN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE CAN SURPASS THIS PERIOD IN ABUNDANCE.
22. POETRY OF SIMPLICITY
•WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S PREFACE TO THE LYRICAL BALLADS
•ASSISTANCE OF COLERIDGE, PUBLISHED IN 1798
• “CHOOSE INCIDENTS AND SITUATIONS FROM COMMON LIFE, AND TO RELATE OR
DESCRIBE THEM THROUGHOUT IN A SELECTION OF THE LANGUAGE REALLY USED BY
MEN.”
23. POETRY OF MAN
•POPE SAID THAT “THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN.”
•COMMON/ORDIANRY MAN
•UNHINGED EMOTIONS
•THE ROMANTIC POETS CARRIED THIS THEORY TO ITS GREATEST DEVELOPMENT.
24. POETRY OF NATURE
• IN NATURE ROMANTIC POETS FOUND THEIR INITIAL INSPIRATION.
• NATURE WAS A FAIRLY DOMINANT THEME AND OCCUPIED A VERY PROMINENT ROLE IN
THE POETRY
•NATURE AS SOMETHING PURE AND UNCORRUPTED AND, THEREFORE, ALMOST
SPIRITUAL
• THE EXPLORATION OF SELF TAKES PLACE PERFECTLY WHEN EMBEDDED INTHE NATURAL
SETTING
