THE ROMANTIC AGE

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THE ROMANTIC AGE

• Johanna Urm

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Romanticism

• Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and
  intellectual movement
• Second half of the 18th century
• In Western Europe
• Gained strength in reaction to the Industrial
  Revolution
• It was a revolt against norms of the Age of
  Enlightenment
• Reaction against the scientific rationalization
  of nature

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Romanticism in England

• Romantic period goes from the second half of the
  XVIII century to the first half of the XIX
  century (George III to Queen Victoria)
• Was opposite of the Enlightenment
• there is a dynamic vision of the world 
• there is a revolution 
• there are sentiments or feelings 
• there is diversity of ideas 
• the most important subjects are biology and,
  later, genetics
• 2 periods 1st and 2nd generation

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1st Period

• William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel
  Taylor Coleridge
• The most important concept is nature
• Life in the countryside
• Another concept is the "sublime

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2nd Period

• George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and
  John Keats
• Were against the society
• Created sorrow and sufferance
• Tried to escape from society
• Refused the real world

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• Imagination - Imagination is the primary faculty
  for creating all art
• Nature - meant many things to the Romantics
• Individualism - importance of the individual
• The Everyday and the Exotic - everyday and the
  exotic appeared together

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Romantic Hero

• Romantic hero is a literary archetype
• Established norms and conventions
• Is rejected by society
• Self as the center of his or her own existence
• Self-criticism

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