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The Romantic Age (from the French Revolution to the coronation of Queen…
The Romantic Age
(from the French Revolution to the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837)
The period in which new ideas and attitudes arose in
reaction to the
dominant
18th-century
ideals of order, calm, harmony, balance, rationality
Romantic trends
Emphasised imagination and emotion.
Valued individuals.
Looked for freedom.
Represented common people.
Interested in the supernatural.
Enlightened trends
Focused on society as a whole.
Followed authority.
Interested in science and technology.
Emphasised reason and judgement.
English Romanticism
A revolt of the English imagination against the neoclassical reason.
influenced by the French Revolution and the English Industrial Revolution.
The Romantics
expressed a
negative attitude towards the existing social or political conditions
;
placed
the individual
at
the centre of art
;
argued that
poetry
should be
free from all rules
.
Key ideas
Focus on the beauties of
nature
, seen as a living being.
Use of creative
imagination
.
Exaltation of
emotion
over reason and
senses
over intellect.
A
new view of the artist
as an individual creator.
Fascination with the
irrational
, the
past
, the
mysterious
, the
exotic
.
Nature
Opposed to reason
.
A
substitute for traditional religion
.
A vehicle for self-consciousness.
A
source of sensations
.
A provocation to a state of imagination and vision.
An expressive language
: natural images provide the poet with a way of thinking about human feelings and the self.
Imagination
A
creative power
superior to reason.
A
dynamic
,
active
, rather than passive
power
.
Allows human beings to ‘read’
nature as a system of symbols
.