The Romantic and Goth Period 1785-1830

1. The Romantic and Goth Period1785-1830 Created by Bianca Lopez

2. What exemplifies your literary period The romantic period brought about a change in the way people thought about art, writing. The writers and artists of the Romantic Movement created work that celebrated nature and the spirit of the individual. Emotion, imagination, and independent thinking are three common ingredients often found in the creative work of this era. With the arrival of the Romantic Movement, traditional thinking was tossed out to make way for this whole new artistic creation. Nature meant many things to Romantics in this era. It was often presented as itself a work of art, constructed y divine imagination, in emblematic language. Some saw nature as a healing power, nature as a source of subject and image, nature as a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization. Romantics called for greater attention to the emotions as a necessary supplement to purely logical reason

3. What exemplifies my literary period The revolutionary energy underlying the Romantic Movement affected not just literature, but all of the arts. From music to painting, from sculpture to architecture. The Romantic Era basically took place all through out Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Romanticism's essential spirit was one of revolt against an established order of things, against precise rules, laws, dogmas, and formulas that characterized Classicism. Praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and intuition over science. Romanticism stresses on self-expression and individual uniqueness that does not lend itself to precise definition.

4. Important figures and works William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – is generally considered one of the greatest sonneteers. Writing over five hundred sonnets. Played a central role in the English Romantic Movement. He is best known for the join publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge In 1798. He had a deep sense of love and appreciation for nature. Other famous works include 'Poems, in Two Volumes', 'Guide to the Lakes', 'The Excursion' and 'The Prelude'. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) – He was one of the most illustrious poets of British literary history. His best known works are She walks in beauty ; When We Two Parted ; and, So, we'll go no more a roving, but also his two narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and, of course the more than famous Don Juan. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) – Was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, were the founders of the Romantic Movement in England. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. Coleridge was a major influence on Emerson, and American transcendentalism.

5. What exemplifies the Gothic Period Gothicism thrived in the 19th century. It's categorized by an emphasis on the macabre and the mysterious. Concepts such as magic, hidden passages, bloody hands, screams, ghosts, and other supernatural entities and activities were all mainstays in the Gothic literary movement. The movement saw a revival in the 1740s when Horace Walpole purchased a grand estate and remodeled it in the “Gothick” style. He added towers, arched windows, and turrets, turning the building into quite a frightening place. Many houses in the surrounding areas followed, creating a movement. What truly got the movement moving was a novel published by Walpole called The Castle of Otranto. Edgar Allen Poe was inspired by this style of writing.

6. Key figures and works Horace Walpole (1717-1797) – was a novelist, letter writer, and son of the prime minister Sir Robert Walpole. He wrote The Castle of Otranto (1764). The work was extremely popular. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the single most important product of this Gothic Tradition. Its numerous thematic resonances relate to science, poetry, psychology, alienation, education and so much more. Shelley was married to Lord Byron. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

7. Famous Gothic Romance Novels Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen.