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The Romantic Period (Texts (Blake: 'The Tyger' (1794) (opposite…
The Romantic Period
Texts
Blake:
'The Lamb'
(1789)
a ballad form
childish, a lullaby
Byron:
'Prometheus'
(1816)
greek character
A Byronic hero
breaks the rules for the greater good
Shelley:
'England in 1819'
(1839)
criticism of the monarchy while advocating for freedom
sonnet w/ iambic pentametre
Blake:
'The Tyger'
(1794)
opposite in tone and word
Tyger: serious, frightening, beautiful
same words, but different meaning ('bright')
multiplicity
creationism vs. industrialism
Defined by
Blake's poetry art
deeply religious embedded
Wollstonecraft's 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' (1792)
Wordsworth's 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads' (1801)
manifesto
nature central
'to make the ordinary extraordinary'
the poet is simply 'a man speaking to a man'
Shelley's 'A Defense of Poetry' (1821- publ. 1840)
Poets are pillars
Themes
back to nature
a reaction to the industrial landscape
Influences
18th C.
ultra rationality --> romantic
Newton's laws of motion
American, French revolution (late 1700s)
Proto-industrial revolution
Steam Power
Machines
Spinning Jenny
The factory system