HOW AND WHY ROMANTIC CRITICISM EVOLVED?

3.  In the middle of 18th century philosophy and
reasoning had failed to explain the mystery of
life.
 Stress shifted to emotions ,imaginations and
feelings , this is what we call romanticism

4.  Rise of romantic criticism was because of
“Reviewers”
 they judged the literature on the basis of their
own likes and dislikes.
 It was a kind of prejudice but it also leads to
impressionism

5. Coleridge and words worth voiced against neo-
classicism and laid the foundation of
romantic criticism

6.  Born on 1772 and died in 1834.
 Main literary works are:-
Biographia litereria
Lectures on Shakespeare and other poets

7. Two types of imaginations.
 Primary imagination
 Secondary imagination
Primary imagination
 Universal.
 Process of receiving impressions from the
external world through senses.

8. Secondary imagination
 Root of all poetic activities.
 Makes artistic creation possible.

9.  Differentiated the terms.
Imagination
 Creative power
 Like a chemical Compound in which all the added
ingredients will lose their individual identities and
converts into a single new.

10. Fancy
 Decoration
 Not a creative power at all.
 It only combines what it perceives into a
beautiful shapes.
 It is like a mechanical compound that all the
added ingredients will not lose their identity.

11.  End of pleasure.
 It has its own unique pleasure.
 It is an activity of imagination.
 primary imagination.
 Secondary imagination.
First the poet passes from a primary
imagination in which he receives the
impressions and then he arts a new thing in
secondary imagination.

12.  Poetry
 Activity of poets mind and imagination.
 Rhyme and Meter causes unity among poetic
diction.
 Poem
 Verbal expression of imagination.

13.  Theme of poetry
 The choice of rustic characters and life.
A man will not be benefitted from a life in rural
solitudes, unless he has sensibility and
suitable education.
Rustic language
Communication is effective when the
vocabulary is rich, but the rustic language has
poor vocabulary.

14.  A selection of the real language.
 The language always varies from individual to
individual.
 It varies according to the extent of knowledge
and depth of his feelings.