Romanticism

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Romanticism

• By Ashley Bobic

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What was Romanticism?

• Wordsworth thought of as founding father
• Definition given in Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• 1775-1830

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Romanticism

• Key Characteristics

• Key Themes

• Simple language
• Free thinking
• Passion
• Prose vs. Meter vs. Verse

• Nature
• Morality of mankind
• Innocence of a child
• Emotion

Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
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What came Before romanticism?

• Elizabethan England- 16th Century
• Classicism 1660s
• Augustan Age 1740s
• Naturalism 1754s

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Social Factors

• French Revolution
• Age of Machinery
• Constant Warfare

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Wordsworth
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1770-1850

• -Parents die at young age
• -Sent to Hawkshead
• -Cambridge at 17
• -1791- France
• -Annette Vallon
• -Later married Anne Hutchinson

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Coleridge
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1772-1834

• -Son of Anglican Clergyman
• -Christs Hospital
• -Pantisocracy
• -Married Sara Fricker
• 1802-1816
• -Ill health
• -Hopelessly in love with Sarah Hutchinson

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Blake
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1757- 1827

• -Merchants son
• -Privately and formally educated
• -Printer and Engravers shop, 1789
• -Married Catherine Boucher
• -Extremely religious