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THE ROMANTIC AGE, Reaction against the Enlightenment - Coggle Diagram
THE ROMANTIC AGE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Industrial revolution
Social inequalities
Urbanization
Poor working conditions
French Revolution (1789)
Equality
Hope for social change
Napoleonic Wars
Political uncertainty in Europe
The American Revolution
Liberty
ROMANTIC POETRY
TWO PHASES
SECOND GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS
MAIN AUTHORS
Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
P. Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822)
John Keats
(1795-1821)
FEATURES
Poet as a bohemian,
as a rebel
FIRST GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS
MAIN AUTHORS
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
S.Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
FEATURES
focus on
common life
importance of
immagination
Anticipated by
PRE-ROMANTICISM
(1760-1801)
FEATURES
Rediscovery of the Middle Age
Re-evaluation of Nature over Reason
MAIN AUTHORS
Thomas Gray
(1716-1771)
William Blake
(1757-1827)
ROMANTIC PROSE
Mary Shelley
(1797-1851)
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
Reaction against the Enlightenment
Rejection of pure reason
Importance of emotions and imagination