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TOPIC 48. ROMANTICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN: POETRY & NOVEL - Coggle Diagram
TOPIC 48. ROMANTICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN: POETRY & NOVEL
2. Definition of Romanticism
European movement.
Britain
:arrow_right: French Revolution (1789) - 1st three decades 19th c.
"The Lake School". Wordsworth, Coleridge, R. Southey
"The Cockney School"". Londoners, J. Keats
"The Satanic School". Byron, Shelley & followers
Emphasis on imagination & emtoion. Rebellion. Exalted intuition, feeling, human creatigity.
Poetry
Romantics = liberators & creators
William Blake
:arrow_right: forerunner. "Songs of innocence", "Songs of experience"
3. Characteristics of Romanticism
Ideals of the French Revolution
Libertinism & the ego.
(no objective values)
"Nature Poetry" & Pantheism
The Medieval Age
The Supernatural & demonology
Exotic countries & cultures
Love & suicide
4. Poetry
The Early Romantic Poets
(The Lake Poets)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
"The poet of nature"
-Great Britain's "poet laureate" from 1843
Lyrical Ballads
+ Coleridge, 1798 :arrow_right: launch Romantic Movement
"Prelude of Lyrical Ballads, Poetical Diction
simple scenes with everyday words
act of composition :arrow_right:immediate
Ballad stanzas (quatrians, iambic tetrameter/trimeter. 2nd & 4th rhymed
The Prelude
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Intimations of Immortality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
major 19th c. English lyrical poet
addicted to opium
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Biographia Literaria
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Lectures on Shakespeare
The Late Romantic Poets
inherited liberal aspiration but frustrated very soon.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Byronic hero
"Childe Harold", model of hero that could shape history by his will. Nietzsche's Superhuman
Most important representative
*Houses of Idleness
:arrow_right: Edingburh Review:arrow_right:
English Bards & Scoths Reviewers
:broken_heart:marriage :arrow_right:
Lara, The Siege of Corinth, Parisina
:pencil2:
Poems on his Domestic Circumstances
Switzerland = Shelley
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Spenserian stanza = 8 lines in iambic pentameter + 1 'Alexandrine' iambic hexameter. ababbcbcc
Don Juan
8 line iambic pentameter ab ab ab cc. Humorous 'ottava rima'
died in Greece
Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
1816 Harriet drowned/ friendship with Byron
A reformer, wanted to free mankind
Image of the philosophical & radical poet, inconformist
Queen Mab
prophetic poem, sceptical, philosophical digression, classical mythology and exoteric doctrines
The Cloud, To a Skylark, Ode to the West Wind
The Cenci
long tragedy
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Prometheus Unbound
Lyrical drama, 1820
Adonais
Elegy on J. Keats' death
John Keats (1795-1821)
Tuberculosis
:forbidden: no desire to reform the world
Endymion
1818, allegory
Hyperion
unfinished epic poem. Milton's "Paradise Lost";
Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn
5. Prose
Gothic Fiction
late 18th c.
Inspiration = medieval buildings & ruins in Gorhic architectual style
From the reasoned order of everyday :arrow_right: dark region governed by the supernatural
Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein
1818
Bram Socker's
Dracula
1897
Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
1818
tale of terror
precursor of modern science fiction
popular culture :red_cross:refer to the monster as "Frankenstein"
Elements of Gothic + Romantic movement
warning of the expanion of modern man in the Industrial Revolution
The Historical Novel
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
debts
Novel publication anonymously (stigmatized genre)
Historical Novels
:arrow_right:
Waverley Novel
= Tolstoy; Father of Historical Novel (pattern)
Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Abbot, The Heart of Midlothian
Spped = debasing literary quality; superficiality of human characer
Jane Auten (1775-1817)
:red_cross:Romantic
Inspired by provincial English gentlefolk, rules of decorum, probelm of youn leisure-class lady, marrige
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Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park