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ROMANTICISM. “It was my heart that counseled me to do it, and my heart cannot err.” ROMANTICISM = a new intellectual movement Emerged at end of 18 th cent Challenged enlightenment thinking Sources of knowing – intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination
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ROMANTICISM “It was my heart that counseled me to do it, and my heart cannot err.” ROMANTICISM = a new intellectual movement • Emerged at end of 18th cent • Challenged enlightenment thinking • Sources of knowing – intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination • The heart is more important than the head
CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM • The misunderstood youth • Individualism • Go your own way/follow inner drives • Reject conformity • Rebel against middle class values – long hair, beards, crazy clothes • Stress on the heroic • The hero was a solitary genius • Defy the world/sacrifice for great causes • Transform society • Passionate interest in the past • The bizarre, unusual, and grotesque
THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER • Novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Werther becomes a hero and model of the Romantics • Young misunderstood truth seeking – girl he loves rejects him and he commits suicide
ROMANTIC POETS AND THE LOVE OF NATURE PERCY SHELLEY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH JOHN KEATS LORD BYRON Love of nature • Nature was raw and untamed • Nature could get you in touch with the divine • Pantheism = god is everywhere/in everything
The World Is Too Much With UsBy William Wordsworth 1770–1850 The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
The ROMANTICS REJECTED • COLD CALCULATING RATIONALISM OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT • MATERIALISM • SCIENCE WAS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS • EMERGING INDUSTRIALIZATION = DEHUMANIZING AND ALIENATING
ROMANTICISM IN ART • Artistic expression = reflection of artist’s inner feelings • Rejection of the restraint of classicism • Emphasized warmth, emotion, movement PAINTERS – CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH J.MW. TURNER EUGENE DELACROIX
Caspar David Friedrich – “Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon”
J. M. W. Turner- “The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken”
ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC • 18TH century = Classicism • 19th century = Romanticism 1. Ludwig van Beethoven a. 9 symphonies b. piano works – Moonlight Sonata, the Appasionata, the Pathetique 2. Hector Berlioz a. French romantic composer b. Symphony Fantastique
THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM • Revival of Protestantism in Europe in the late 18th- early 19th cent -> “the great awakening” • Methodism in Britain • Pietism in Germany