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The Romantic Age. Anastassia Ševtšenko XIB. Second half of the 18th century Western Europe A revolt against norms of the Age of Enlightenment Period of great change in England Industrial Revolution. Characteristics of Romanticism. Nationalism Love of nature
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The Romantic Age Anastassia Ševtšenko XIB
Second half of the 18th century • Western Europe • A revolt against norms of the Age of Enlightenment • Period of great change in England • Industrial Revolution
Characteristics of Romanticism • Nationalism • Love of nature • Intuition, imagination, and feelings • Distant, faraway exotic places • The Romantic Hero • Idealization of women Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling."
I period – The age of Revolutions • Starts in 1798 - 1st edition of “Lyrical Ballads” by Wordsworth and Coleridge. • Sublime • Nature • William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake – Love’s Secret Ever seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.
II period • Created sorrow and sufferance • Tried to escape from society • John Keats, • Percy Bysshe Shelley, • Mary Shelley and • Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley- Music when soft voices die Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Romantic hero • Rejected by society • Self – critisism • Rejects established norms • Melancholy • Isolation • The center of his or her own existence • Examples: Werther, Don Juan, Mr Darcy
Used sources: • http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/loves_secret.html • http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0858004.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry • http://www.google.com