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Romantic Age literary context - Coggle Diagram
Romantic Age
literary context
Political background
:
-American Revolution
-French Revolution
-Industrial Revolution
Sturm Und Drang
A German movement which influenced the second half of the 18th centuri, against Classicism and Enlightment
Characterized by
• Sensibility
• Immagination
• Inner self
• Individual feelings
• nature
Poetry
best for expressing emotion and feelings
Two Generations
Firts generation
: faith in the future, they defined the style and the themes of Romanticism with
"Lyrical Ballads"
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge: “Lyrical Ballads”
Second Generation
: more pessimistic about French ideals, in contrast with Coleridge and Wordsworth:
• Lord Byron, adventurer: “Don Juan”
• Percy Shelley: critical of any form of tyranny
• John Keats: moods and sensation in his poetry
they all died young
Themes
• Beauty
• Emotions
• Nature
• childhood
Pre-Romantic Poets
William Blake:
visionary elements and symbolism
Thomas Gray: “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Other Literary Forms
Gothic Novel
: supernatural and mistery. Mary Shelley with "Frankenstein"
Novel of Manners
with Jane Austen
Essay
: subjective and introspective, with Charles Lamb and Thomas De Quincey
