Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837), ROMANTIC PROSE, Pre-Romantic poets, TWO…

- - - - Pre-Romantic poetry is characterised by:
        
        the use of classical forms
        
        the re-evaluation of the role of nature over civilisation
        
        the exaltation of primitive life
        
        the tendency to use a meditative and melancholy tone
        
        the rediscovery of the Middle Ages
        
        a fascination with death
        
        graveyards and ruins
        
        the themes such as "the exotic", "the strange", "the sublime"
  - - - was a complex cultural and literary phenomenon in Europe
        
        was a reaction against the triumph of Reason of the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism
        
        The Romanticism re-evaluated the role of imagination and nature in the process of artistic creation and gave voice to a growing interest in emotions, feelings, the irrational and the supernatural.
      - the meanings of the word "Romantic"
        
        comes from the French "Romance"
        
        in the Middle Ages it referred to the artificial language and actions of Medieval romances about chivalry and adventures
        
        in the 18th century the term started to acquire a different meaning: "marked by feeling" rather than rationalism. (the ideas of melancholy and loneliness)
- - - - he is an eclectic intellectual whose short stories explore the dark sides of the human mind and focus on horror, mystery and the supernatural
- - - - Austen’s novels explore universal themes such as limits imposed by social conventions on feelings and the exploration of the conditions of the life of women.
- - - - James Macpherson (1736-1796)
- - - - they are united by the fact that their poems were published in a collected volume called Lyrical Ballads, which was published in 1798.
      - they represented the two opposite and complementary sides of the first phase of English Romanticism:
        
        Wordsworth focuses on the depiction of humble, rustic life and uses the common language of ordinary people
        
        Coleridge’s poems, are pervaded by mysterious characters and supernatural events and are often suspended in a dreamlike atmosphere.
  - - - The poets belonging to the Second Generation of English Romantic Poets are very different from one another:
        
        Percy Bysshe Shelley, is a poet who embodied political rebellion and a peculiar kind of visionary mysticism
        
        Lord Byron’s poetry gives voice to a sense of rejection of social conventions and moral limitations
        
        John Keats focuses on poetic introspection and explores the nature of sensations and beauty