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Romanticism (General (Dismissal of the Classical Form (The Romantics…

- - - - Mary Wollstonecraft did in support of the rebellion, William Wordsworth joined the post-revels #
    - - The British became increasingly conservative in fear of their own revolution
      - Britain went to war with France during this period - from 1793-1802 and 1803-1815
  - - - Rationalist - reason = truth
      - Empiricist - sense experience = truth
      - Kant believed that we cannot know that God exists as we do not possess that power
        
        So there is no such thing as objective truth; subjective reality is the answer
- - - - The nightingale is a Romantic and poetic symbol of inspiration
        
        Milton - one of Keats' favourite poets - had previously written about one
      - There was a nightingale nesting in his garden
      - Modelled off a bird's song
        
        Creates something beautiful and everlasting
    - - In 1816, the Parthenon Frieze was purchased from Lord Elgin (who took it from Greece) and displayed in the British Museum
        
        Many of the Romantics were fascinated by this urn, and its depictions of the spirit of Greece
        
        Keats was extremely interested in this Greek artwork - he even traced a a vase himself
      - Was published anonymously in the January 1820 edition of 'Annals of the Fine Arts'
        
        This magazine was well-known for promoting the idea that Greek art encapsulated the ideal form of Beauty