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Romaticism-The romantic period (1776-1837), image, connecting subjects: -…
Romaticism-The romantic period (1776-1837)
in the last two decades of the 18th century Europe witnessed 3 major revolutions
French revolutions
end of the
Ancien Régime
revolution began July 14th 1789
American revolution
13 British colonies of North America conquered independence and began the history of the US
4th of July 1776 -declaration of Independence
Industrial revolution
beginning of the industrialization of economy and profound social changes
change form an agricultural to an industrial economy
new energy sources: coal ->oil ->electricity + symbol of this evolution: steam engine and railway network
Romantic thought
highly idealistic - democratic ideals - revolutionary principles of social equality - fascination with nature
the individual as centre of life and experience - centrality of subjective experience and individual perception
it was thought that through emotions and the senses men could unlock the mysteries of life and experience the truth
promotes the idea of imagination (one of the most vital and creative faculties of human perception)
Romantic poets
Second generation poets
Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
diffusion of the myth of the ideal Romantic hero: melancholy solitary genius, passionate and uncontroversial, prone to eccentric and rebellious behavior
First generation poets
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel T. Coleridge (1771-1834)
William Blake (1757-1827)
renewed, simple, direct language
imagination - dreams - visions - reveries - childhood - supernatural
the Sublime
principal effect of experiencing the sublime is
feeling of astonishment
acording to Edmund Burke's
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(1757-59)
the sublime can be described as a mixture of fear, awe and wonder that can be experiences in literature and in nature
Viandante sul mare di nebbia
, Caspar David Freidrich
it is considered to be the manifesto fo the romanticism
connecting subjects:
german - italian - art - chinese
