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Get to know Romantic Poetry

Get to know Romantic Poetry. Essential Background:. Concept-Factors- Characteristics-Impact.

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Get to know Romantic Poetry

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  1. Get to know Romantic Poetry

  2. Essential Background: Concept-Factors- Characteristics-Impact

  3. Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840.

  4. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution • It was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment • It was a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Reasons behind it

  5. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and the natural sciences. • Its effect on politics was considerable and complex; while for much of the peak Romantic period it was associated with liberalism and radicalism, in the long term its effect on the growth of nationalism was probably more significant. Its impact:

  6. In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past • the cult of "sensibility” • emphasis on women and children • the heroic isolation of the artist or narrator, • respect for a new, wilder, untrammeled and "pure" nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Its characteristics

  7. Cole_Thomas_The_Voyage_of_Life_Old_Age_1842.

  8. Caspar David FriedrichThe wanderer above the sea of fog

  9. Blake The Girl Found

  10. Henry Wallis-The Death of Chatterton

  11. The Bard, 1774, by Welsh artist Thomas Jones.

  12. Louis Janmot-Poem of the Soul (On the Mountain)

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