Romanticism

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Romanticism

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• William Blake

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Origins

• The term Romanticism was coined by German
  poets, August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel.
• It began as a reaction to the Enlightenment, as
  well as an outgrowth of the French Revolution.

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Characteristics

• Individualism
• Emphasis on common language
• Strong importance of the past
• Glorification of nature
• Emotion rather than intellect

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Early Romanticists

• William Blake
• British poet and artist
• Created illuminated works.
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Wrote Lyrical Ballads
• Credited with changing the face of poetry.

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Golden Age of Romanticism

• Lord Byron
• Most widely read poet of his time
• Wrote Don Juan and She Walks in Beauty
• Mary Shelley
• Married Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Wrote Frankenstein

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Golden Age continued

• John Keats
• Died of tuberculosis
• Wrote La Belle Dame sans Merci and Ode on a
  Grecian Urn

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Late Romanticists

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Wrote the quintessential American Romantic novel,
  The Scarlet Letter
• Also famous for his short stories
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Lived a tragic life and died a mysterious death
• Wrote dark, macabre tales The Tell-Tale Heart,
  The Black Cat, The Raven

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Bibliography/Online Sources

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia
• Ibiblio

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The painting on the first slide is Temeraire by
J.M.W. Turner