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ROMANTICISM, SECOND GENERATION, FIRST GENERATION, England: started in 1798…
ROMANTICISM
The romantics were interested in humble life, they used the imagination and exalted the emotion, the exotic, the past. They were olso focused on melacholy associated with the suffering of the poor and death.
There was a new concept of nature. It became a real and living being.. it was the expression of human feelings.
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SECOND GENERATION
Shelley, Byron and Keats
This generation was linked to individualism and the political disilussionment reflected in their poetry
KEATS: The poet has a 'negative capability', he is impersonal. Poetry is the only reason for life. It's absolute and eternal. Nature is another form of beauty
BYRON: He isn't a moral guide. He thinks a lot about himself as an individual, doing what he wants, in fact even his hero is very self-centered.
The poetry is the expression of passion, and nature isn't benevolent but it's the reflection of himself
SHELLEY: The poet is a prophet and a titan challenging the cosmos. He aim to achieve an ideal world of beauty.
The poetry is the expression of his imagination, it's something of divine. Nature is a shelter that hides the eternal truth.
FIRST GENERATION
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COLERIDGE: The poet has the ability to idealise and unify in order to ricreate.
The nature is the expression of God's will. It is not a moral guide. In his poetry there are : the primary and secondary imagination and the fancy
WORDSWORTH: The poet is not superior to men but the poet has a more powerful imagination. He is a moral guide. The nature is a source of joy, it is considered an organism with its own life. The poetry, for Wordsworth, is spontaneous, an recollection in tranquillity of emotions.
England: started in 1798 (with the publication of 'Lyrical Ballad')
ended in 1837 (when Victoria became queen)
English Romanticism was influenced by the French, American and Industrial
revolution. There was a change in the workers' life.
At the first the adjective Romantic had a negative meaning, because it rapresented the unreal
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