2.  Romanticism – intellectual movement that was
a reaction against the Enlightenment
 Urged a revival of Christianity/Religion
 Liked art, music, and literature of medieval
times
 Used folk tales and medieval art to solidify
nationalism

3.  Remember, 18th
century….all about
human reason
 Romanticism is
about emotion

4.  Romantic artists
were concerned
about themselves
 Emotions
 Reactions to their
world
 Own individuality

5.  Rejected 18th
century predecessors’
emphasis on reason
 Explored power of dreams and the
subconscious
 Were fascinated by subjects that
science could not explain
 New vision of nature

6.  Marveled at the power,
majesty, and inevitability
of nature.
 Natural universe was
mysterious world of its
own
 Believed in “remoteness”
of time or place
 Inspired by ancient British
Druids and medieval
knights

8.  Percy and Mary Shelley
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge – wrote Gothic poems of the
supernatural
 William Wordsworth – wrote, sometimes with
Coleridge about how humans lose their childlike
imagination as they get older
 Lord Byron – rebel Romanticist, who wrote about
personal liberty and mocked his own beliefs in famous
works such as Don Juan (1819)
 John Keats

9.  Showed the suffering of
their souls
I am the eye which the Universe
Beholds itself and knows itself divine;
All harmony of instrument or verse,
All prophecy, all medicine is mine,
All light of art or nature;_to my son
Victory and praise in its own right belong
“The Hymn of Apollo”

10. I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

11.  Son of aristocrat
 Expelled from Oxford for
atheist beliefs
 Married Mary
Wollstonecraft (named
after her mother)
 Encouraged his wife,
Mary Shelley, to write
fiction
 Died mysteriously in 1822

12.  Dr. Frankenstein creates
monster in his lab
 The book is a complex
work of nature and
science
 The plot shows Mary’s
concern that science is
growing out of control
 The story is a Romantic
indictment of how science
can deform nature.

13.  William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
 Founder of English Romantic
movement
 Witnessed revolutionary France
and was inspired by the political
idealism
 In the latter part of French
Revolution- the Reign of terror, a
period of violent conflict
between rival political factions,
disturbed him.
 Withdrew to the English
countryside
 1799 lived in Lake District (his
poetry made it famous)
“Bliss was it, in that dawn to be
alive.”

14. FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.--Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
With some uncertain notice, as might seem
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone.

15. And I will dare to tell,
But in the lover's ear alone,
What once to me befell.
When she I loved looked every day
Fresh as a rose in June,
I to her cottage bent my way,
Beneath an evening-moon.
Upon the moon I fixed my eye,
All over the wide lea;
With quickening pace my horse drew nigh
Those paths so dear to me.
And now we reached the orchard-plot;
And, as we climbed the hill,
The sinking moon to Lucy's cot
Came near, and nearer still.
In one of those sweet dreams I slept,
Kind Nature's gentlest boon!
And all the while my eye I kept
On the descending moon.
My horse moved on; hoof after hoof
He raised, and never stopped:
When down behind the cottage roof,
At once, the bright moon dropped.
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a Lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy hould be dead!"

16.  George Gordon, Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
 Led an unconventional life
 Created mysterious and
gloomy heroes in his books
 Loved Romantic melodrama
 Identified with Greek fight
for independence
 Died in 1824 while training
soldiers in Greece

17. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless
climes and starry skies; And all that's best of
dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her
eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies. .
From “She Walks in Beauty”

18.  John Keats (1795-
1821)
 Eve of Saint Agnes
 Ode to a Nightingale
 Ode to Autumn
Died at the age of 25
from tuberculosis

19. In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity:
The north cannot undo them
With a sleety whistle through them;
Nor frozen thawings glue them
From budding at the prime.
From “In Drear-nighted December”

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