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The Romantics

The Romantics. Romanticism: Key Terms. NATURE: Romantics rebelled against the scientific study of nature that began in the Enlightenment. EMOTION: Wordsworth wrote that “poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility.” Basically, they were drama queens.

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The Romantics

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  1. The Romantics

  2. Romanticism: Key Terms • NATURE: Romantics rebelled against the scientific study of nature that began in the Enlightenment. • EMOTION: Wordsworth wrote that “poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility.” Basically, they were drama queens. • IMAGINATION: The Romantics saw the poet as a lone genius: gifted, isolated, misunderstood, completely original.

  3. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon

  4. Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (1798) • The poet should: • 1. “Choose incidents and situations from common life.” • 2. Describe them “in a selection of language really used by men.” • 3. “[T]hrow over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way.” • 4. Trace, in these incidents, “the primary laws of our nature.”

  5. Romantic Liberty • Even though the Romantics rebelled against the scientific approach of the Enlightenment, they shared the celebration of “freedom” we saw in Liberalism. • To the Romantics, liberty is usually a “freedom from” rather than a “freedom to” … Freedom from society, from constraints on mobility, from previous poetic forms and movements.

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