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The Romantic period (1798 - 1832) (Romanticism ≠ Classicism…
The
Romantic period
(1798 - 1832)
Extending roughly from
1798
of the
Lyrical Ballad
( Samuel Taylor Coleridge + William Wordsworth)
Romanticism
≠ Classicism (disillutionment + negative attitude toward real world)
Concept
of poetry: mind + feelings (emotion > reason)
Love of
nature
Symphathy of the humble common ppl
Imagination -> fantastic dreaming world,
remote
in time + place
Return to the
PAST
(content + form), ballad -> popular
Melancholy + loneliness
Love of
freedom
+ feelings of
rebellion
(against tyrannical authorities)
Poetry
The Conservative Trend
(The Lake School)
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Against injustice
Frightened by bloodshed, rejection: social + economic progress
Turning away
from the ideas of Enlightenment
Towards idealization of patriarchial feudal past + medieval attitudes
The Progressive Trend
(The Cockney School)
Lord Byron, Shelley, John Keats
Criticizing
the result of
capitalist development
Longing for a
better present
and a
wonderful future
Past
(little interest)
, only mindful of the
present
Prose
Parallel growth (personal essays + autobiographies)
Novels (new themes, new approaches) -> the most
popular
+ most
highly regarded
genre
Authors
William Wordsworth
(founder of English romanticism)
The lyrical ballads (1798)
The Prelude (1850)
– his autobiography in verse
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
(1st important ♀ English novelist who bridged the gap between the 18th and 19th cen)
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Emma (1816)
John Keats
Ode
to the Nightgale
To Autumn
Ode
to Grecian Urns
Book
: Hyperion