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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Romanticism

Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Romanticism. Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips. Romanticism. Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840 Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer 1818 . http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/. Romanticism

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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Romanticism

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  1. Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Romanticism Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips

  2. Romanticism Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840 Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer 1818 http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/

  3. Romanticism Highly influential movement in virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America lasting from about 1750 to about 1870. J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851 S. Giorgio Maggiore: Early Morning1819 http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/

  4. Characteristics: Imagination Rebellion Nature Childhood innocence The individual

  5. Origins and Inspiration Late 18th century in France and Germany literary taste turns away from classical and neoclassical conventions. Giovanni Paolo Pannini 1691-1765Roman Ruins with the Arch of Titus1734 http://www.laputanlogic.com/articles/2006/05/index.html

  6. http://www.laputanlogic.com/articles/2006/05/index.html http://www.success.co.il/knowledge

  7. Inspiration initially from two men: Jean Jacques Rousseau and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. http://copepodo.wordpress.com http://www.greatbooksandfilm.com/rousseauquest.htm Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1788 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832

  8. The Romantic Spirit Rousseau established the cult of the individual and the freedom of the human spirit: I felt before I thought. Frontispiece to Songs of Innocence by William Blake http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/song.htm

  9. Goethe and others extolled the romantic spirit as manifested in German folk songs, Gothic architecture, and the plays of Shakespeare. http://www.planetware.com Strasbourg (depicted in the late 18th c.) and Cologne Cathedrals

  10. Goethe justified revolt against political authority and inaugurated the Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) movement, a forerunner of German romanticism. Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel 1735-1813 Prise de la Bastille http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr

  11. The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) exalts sentiment to the point of justifying committing suicide over unrequited love. http://brendenundefined.blogspot.com/

  12. Edgar Degas 1834-1917 Melancholy c. 1874 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgar_Degas-_Melancholy.JPG Romantic attitudes: frenzy, melancholy, world-weariness, self-destruction

  13. http://tomypledgedwordamtrue.blogspot.com http://www.filipspagnoli.wordpress.com http://web2.cc.nctu.edu.tw George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 William Wordsworth 1770-1850 http://www.records.viu.ca http://www.rogervivier.wordpress.com http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 Mary Shelley 1797-1851 John Keats 1795-1821

  14. The Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1802) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: http://tomypledgedwordamtrue.blogspot.com http://web2.cc.nctu.edu.tw http://etc.dal.ca

  15. “I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquility gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.”

  16. “What is a Poet?” “To whom does he address himself?” “And what language is to be expected from him?”

  17. “- He is a man speaking to men” “a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility” “more enthusiasm and tenderness” “who has a greater knowledge of human nature” “and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind”

  18. “And what language is to be expected from him?” “The language, too, of these men* has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) ...” *men of humble and rustic life

  19. Nature “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... ...and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.”

  20. Nature and the Countryside Reaction to the industrial revolution Rise of the bourgeoisie Contrast with the corruption of government (pastoral) Greenburn Bottom, near Grasmere, Cumbria http://www.wordsworthcentre.co.uk

  21. Politics Libertarian and abolitionist movements of the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincide with the romantic philosophy: freedom from convention and tyranny, the rights and dignity of the individual. Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863 La Liberté guidant le peuple 1830 http://www.theartwolf.com

  22. Political and Social Causes William Blake – antinomian, anti-institutional William Wordsworth – French Revolution Lord Byron – Greek independence Shelley – political reform in England and Ireland Keats – opposition to political repression in England http://www.todd44.wordpress.com http://tomypledgedwordamtrue.blogspot.com http://www.filipspagnoli.wordpress.com http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au http://www.ilisaurus.wordpress.com

  23. The Lure of the Exotic Lord Byron http://www.listverse.com

  24. The Gothic The Middle Ages as an inspiration for themes and settings: melancholy, ruins, graveyards, the supernatural http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1263/1453564387_80e77a57c8.jpg

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