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The Romantic Period 1798-1832

The Romantic Period 1798-1832. The Curfew or The Wide Water'd Shore , 1870 Samuel Palmer. What We Know. Romantic Characteristics. Romanticism is characterized by the following general features:

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The Romantic Period 1798-1832

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  1. The Romantic Period1798-1832 The Curfew or The Wide Water'd Shore, 1870Samuel Palmer

  2. What We Know

  3. Romantic Characteristics Romanticism is characterized by the following general features: Romanticism turned away from the 18th century emphasis on reason and artifice.  Instead, the Romantics embraced imagination and naturalness. Romantic-era poets rejected the public, formal, and witty works of the previous century. They preferred poetry that spoke of personal experiences and emotions, often in simple, unadorned language. The Romantics each used the lyric as the form best suited to expressions of feeling, self-revelation, and the imagination.

  4. Romanticism Cont’d. • Wordsworth urged poets to adopt a democratic attitude towards their audiences; although endowed with a special sensibility, the poet was always happy “a man speaking to men.” • Many Romantics turned to a past or inner dream world that they felt was a more picturesque and magical than the ugly industrial age they lived in. • Most Romantics believed in individual liberty and sympathized with those who rebelled against tyranny. • The Romantics thought of nature as transformative; they were fascinated by the ways nature and the human mind “mirrored” the other’s creative properties.

  5. Turbulent Times, Bitter Realities Started with the French Revolution in 1789 Ended with Parliamentary Reforms in 1832 Turbulent Age – England changed from agricultural to industrial (Industrial Revolution) American Independence 1776 Revolution sweeping across Western Europe

  6. Storming of the Bastille

  7. Revolution Romanticized • The idea of revolution in France excited democratic idealists like William Wordsworth. • Made trips to France to see revolution unfold – like tourists to the Grand Canyon. • September Massacre 1792 – 100’s of aristocrats beheaded by the guillotine. • Napoleon Bonaparte – emperor - 1804

  8. Tragic End of Louis XVI (18th Century) unknown artist

  9. The Industrial Revolution • Laissez Faire – “let (people) do (as they please) • Policy allowing economic forces to operate freely without gov’t interference. • Most devastating on the small poor children. • Poetry changed from formal public verse to a mo spontaneous, lyric poetry • Expresses Romantic belief that imagination rather than reason was the best response to the forces of change.

  10. Romanticism is associated with idealism.Not romance novels

  11. A Surrey Cornfield (19th Century) by George Vicat Cole

  12. Bedlam Furnace, Madeley Dale Shorpshire (1803) by Paul Sandby Munn

  13. Autumn Leaves (20th Century) by Daniel Sherrin

  14. GO.HRW.COM Final Thoughts

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