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THE ROMANTIC AGE (18th - 19th century) - Coggle Diagram
THE ROMANTIC AGE (18th - 19th century)
KEY THEMES
Naturalism
power of the imagination
heroic individualism and exaltation of the man
freedom
the rediscovery of the Middle Ages
memory and the past
God’s presence
fantasy
POETRY
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
death
spirituality
power of the Nature
The Manifesto of English Romanticism
The Poet
Poetry and the Creative Process
The Subject Matter and Language of Poetry
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
bliss of solitude
idea of absence
memory
spirituality
imagination, nature, pictures of ordinary life
easy language
"My heart leaps up"
child's closeness to nature
access to a unique worldview
Age of Poetry
Mary Shelley
The Gothic Novel
Jane Austen
The Satirical Novel
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
The French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
The American Revolution
ART
power of the Nature
mystery and drama
potential and possibilities of man
perspective
depth