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RomanticismFishytt

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Outline

• The definition of Romanticism

• Characteristics of Romanticism

• Outstanding figures

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Romanticism• Romanticism (the Romantic Movement), a literary movement,

and profound shift in sensibility, which took place in Britain and throughout Europe 1770-1848.

• Intellectually it marked a violent reaction to the Enlightenment. • Politically it was inspired by the revolutions in America and

France and popular wars of independence in Poland, Spain, Greece, and elsewhere.

• Emotionally it expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience (the 'egotistical sublime'), together with the sense of the infinite and transcendental.

• Socially it championed progressive causes, though when these were frustrated it often produced a bitter, gloomy, and despairing outlook.

• As an age of romantic enthusiasm, The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor published Lyrical Ballads, and ended in 1832 when Walter Scott died.

• At the beginning the literature reflected the political turmoil of the age stirred by French Revolution.

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Characteristics of Romanticism

– interest in nature,– exaltation of

imagination– protest against

“correctness”– increased faith in

the worth of the individual

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Robert Burns• Born 25 January 1759 Scotland• Died 21 July 1796 (aged 37)

Scotland• Occupation Poet, lyricist, farmer,

excise man• Literary movement Romanticism

• Notable work:Auld Lang Syne, To a Mouse, A Man's A Man for A' That, Ae Fond Kiss, Scots Wha HaeI

• Influences Robert Fergusson Influenced John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bob Dylan, John Steinbeck, William Wordsworth

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Robert Burns

• Robert Burns also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet

• He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language

• He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.

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William Blake• Born28 November 1757

London, England• Died12 August 1827

(aged 69)London, England

• Occupation: Poet, Painter, Printmaker

• Genres: Visionary Poetry• Literary movement:

Romanticism• Notable work: Songs of

Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton

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William Blake• William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

• Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both poetry and the visual arts of the Romantic Age.

• he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced 'imagination' as "the body of God",or "Human existence itself“.

• His paintings and poetry have been characterized as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic“

• Blake as a "glorious luminary,"and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors.

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William Wordsworth• William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850)

was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

• Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge".

• Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Born 21 October 1772 Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England

• Died 25 July 1834 (aged 61)Highgate, England

• Occupation: Poet, critic, philosopher

• Literary movement:Romanticism

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets.

• He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

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British Romantic Poetry

Shelley Keats

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