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THE ROMANTIC AGE, Subject, BEAUTY, Style, Aim, birth of the Gothic Novel -…

- - - - allows human beings to "read" nature as a system of symbols
    - - Rousseau believes that natural behaviour is better than one controlled by reason and society's rules
        
        concept of noble savage
  - - - a source of sensations
      - an expressive language
        
        natural images provide the poet with a way to express human feelings and the self
      - a living being
- - - - deals with the supernatural
    - - known as Lake Poets because they lived together in the last few years of the 18th century in the district of the great lakes in Northwestern England.
        
        In 1798, they published the Lyrical Ballads, the manifesto of English Romanticism.
      - makes poetry out of the simple rustic life
  - - - linked to individualism and escapism.
        
        the political disillusionment they experience is is reflected in their poetry in the clash between the ideal and reality
    - - concerned with pursuit of beauty, considered by many a forerunner of the Aesthetic Movement
    - - distinguished themselves for their rebellious spirit and passionate defence of freedom
  - - - forerunner of Romantic poetry because of his interest in social problems and his use of symbols