The Romantic Age 17981832

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The Romantic Age1798-1832

• Language Arts IV
• Sheryl Walker

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Basis in French Revolution

• Bastile Day-1789
• Liberty, equality, and fraternity
• September massacres-1792
• Louis XVI beheaded early 1793
• 17,000 royalists killed by Jacobins, led by
  Robespierre
• France declares war on Britain 1793-1815

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Watershed Moment(defining point in time)

• 1798
• Wordsworth Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
• Preface contains new definition of poetry
• spontaneous overflow of emotion recollected in
  tranquility

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William Wordsworth

• Father figure of Romantic movement
• Spent part of youth in France
• Tragically separated from French love
• Wrote Lucy poems
• Traveled with sister Dorothy Coleridge

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Wordsworths The Daffodils
I wanderd lonely as a cloudThat floats on high
o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a
crowd, A host, of golden daffodils Beside the
lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing
in the breeze.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Imagination of Romantic movement
• Famous for Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Kubla Khan

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Romantic Characteristics

• Love of wild, untamed nature

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Romantic characteristics

• Reliance on emotion imagination rather than
  reason and logic

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Romantic characteristics

• Fascination with faraway, exotic times and places

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Romantic characteristics

• Preoccupation with death and human ability or
  lack thereof to change fate

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Romantic characteristics

• Interest in mystery and the supernatural

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Romantic characteristics

• Value of common people as individuals, rather
  than society as a whole
• Strongly influenced by French Revolutionary
  idealsuntil it turned into the whole Reign of
  Terror thing

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Other Romantic writers

• William Blake
• Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
• There is no doubt that this poor man was mad,
  but there is something in the madness of this man
  which interests me more than the sanity of Lord
  Byron and Walter Scott
• George Gordon, Lord Byron (scandalous)
• Don Juan, Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

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Other Romantic writers

• Sir Walter Scott
• Ivanhoe, other thick and lifeless tomes
• John Keats
• Ode on a a Grecian Urn
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Ozymandias
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Frankenstein

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What historical event inspired the Romantics?
What was the famous volume of poetry that kicked
off the Romantic movement?
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Which are not Romantic characteristics?
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Who were the leaders of the Romantic movement?
Who else were Romantic writers?
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