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ROMANTIC POETS, GENERAL FEATURES - Coggle Diagram
ROMANTIC POETS
Anticipated by
PRE-ROMANTICISM
(1760-1801)
EXPONENTS
Thomas Gray
(1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(1751)
Reflection on death and mortality
William Blake
(1757-1827)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
(1794)
Cotrast between purity and evil
The elements that made Romanticism a rivolutionary phenomenon:
Subjectivity
:
In contrast with Neoclassicists.
The romantic Intellectuals preferred to follow their
inner self
.
Nature
:
Romantic intellectuals and artists idealised the role of nature as a benign and consoling entity
Beauty
:
Imagination
:
Romantic artists declared that reality is much more than what we can experience with our senses
.
Art
:
Art according to the Romantic artists, was the expression of the supreme
creative power of the artist
.
Romantic artists gave importance to new ideas of beauty, such as the
exotic
, the
irregular
, the
wild
, the
supernatural
and the strange
.
A NEW SENSITIVITY TOWARDS NATURE
In
pre-Romantic poetry
, Nature is often depicted both as the
right place for man
and as the primordial force that can contrast the dehumanising effects of the Industrial Revolution
.
First Generation of Romantic poets
Lake Poets
Coleridge
He is interested in uncovering
'the supernatural’, ‘the sublime’ and ‘the fantastic'
in Nature
.
He interpreted Nature in
Neo-Platonic
terms as the visible translation of hidden spiritual truths that stand at the core of what is real
.
Wordsworth
Nature
:
primary source of poetic inspiration
.
divine healing force that permeates the universe
.
Second Generation of Romantic poets
Shelley
He exalts Nature as a majestic unifying force:
THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY
and
inspire humans to act heroically for a better world
.
benign entity
.
Uncontrolled and distruptive force that can destroy indiscriminately and is often indifferent to human requests
.
Keats
GENERAL FEATURES
Exaltation of nature
Distrust in progress and industrial development
Use of imagination
Rejection of Neoclassicism
Accent on spontaneous feelings
Interest in the world of the self