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T. 48 ROMANTICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN - Coggle Diagram
T. 48 ROMANTICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN
1. INTRODUCTION
Romantic period: 1798
Lyrical Ballads
- 1832 Sir Walter Scott :skull_and_crossbones:
Romantic vs Victorian Age
2.CHARACTERISTICS
Historical background
Breaking up old stabilities
From agricultural to industrial society
IR, socio-political consequences:
Changes economical and social conditions
New social class :female-factory-worker:
Coming of machines
Parliamentary Reform
French Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, War of Independence, Feminist Group and repressive measures
Romanticism
Response to rational thought
Original meaning: vernacular languages from Latin
17th century: imaginative, fictitious, extravagant, fabulous
18th century: advancement upon classical
Love for nature and flight from city :sunrise_over_mountains:
Importance imagination to contact with spiritual world :sparkles:
Interest supernatural :ghost:
3. POETRY
William Blake (1757-1827)
London, visions as a child, wide reading, total artist
Songs of Innocence
1789 childhood = innocence
Songs of Experience
1794 maturity = experience
Early books: current affairs
Later books: origin of evil :alien:
Lambeth Books
The Book of Urizen
Creation is a mistake and creator a tyrant God: laws, measuring and lost spiritual world
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Lake District, last years lost his youthful enthusiam
An Evening Walk
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Descriptive Sketches
1793
The Prelude
Lyrical Ballads
1798 with Coleridge
Tintern Abbey
spontaneous overflow of feelings :national_park:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1835)
Opium addiction :smoking:
Biographia Literaria
Aids of Reflectio
On the Constitution of Church and State
Lyrical Ballads
1798 with Wordsworth
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
literary devices
Kubla Khan
opium dream, narrative but fragmented and wild, sublime
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
London, Cambridge, aristocratic bearing, left England half sister
English Lords and Scotch Reviewers
1809 travels EU
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Byronic hero :man::skin-tone-2:
Political liberalism:
Marino Faliero
Cain
Heaven and Earth
Prophecy of Dante
Don Juan
portray of life in many life with mocking commentaries
Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822)
Sussex, Eton, William Godwin and daughter, Italy
Necessity of Atheism
1810 expelled from uni
Queen Mab
1813 extreme notions of religion, politics and morality :fire:
Prometheus Unbound
Platonic ideas
Ode to the West Wind
intense feelings of beauty and expression
John Keats (1795-1821)
London, apothecary, Leigh Hunt
Endymion
1818
Hyperion
1819
The Eve of St Agnes
1820
Odes
1819 :star:
4. THE NOVEL
Literature of Sensibility and the Gothic novel as response to rationalism
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Writing before 12, Christian conservative, ironic exposure of affection, heroines
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
1813
Mansfield Park
1814
Emma
1816
:heavy_division_sign: romantic and victorian
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Edinburgh, historical novel, Scotland = romantic country, glamorous past :notebook_with_decorative_cover:
Ivanhoe
The Monastery
Rob Boy
The Old Morality
5. CONCLUSION
Reaction against Neoclassicism
Imagination, past, nature, supernatural, individualism