EmotionFeeling

GrandeurImaginationNationalism

History and Folk TalesNature

Associated with the Middle Class Emphasis on individual fulfillment. Imagination and Emotion. Rebellion against classicism

Shipwreck by Turner

William Wordsworth “I wander’d lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o’er vales and hills.”

Lord Byron--”When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbors; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, and get knocked on his head for his labors.”

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Grimm’s Fairy Tales Arthurian Tales and Legends

Poets Samuel Taylor

Coleridge William Wordsworth Lake District Poets Percy Bryce Shelley Lord Byron

Writers Goethe’s Faust--The

struggle in the mind of a heroic individual.

Sir Walter Scott--the historical novel Ivanhoe.

Alexandre Dumas--The Three Musketeers

Beethoven as a bridge b/w classical and romantic

3rd Symphony—Eroica initially dedicated to Napoleon.

Richard Wagner (German)

Franz Schubert Franz Liszt Tchaikovsky (Russia)

1812 Overture

Opera--Emotion!!! Paganini--Italian Verdi--Italian link

with nationalism--Victor Emmanual Roi d’Italia

Puccini--La Boheme

Courbet—”Show me an angel and I will paint you an angel”› The Painter’s

Studio› The Stone Breakers

Constable—Landscapes (also Romanticism)› The Haywain

Daumier› 3rd Class Carriage.

Millet› The Sower

Charles Dickens--Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times

“It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it.” Hard Times

The Beggar by Chekov