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Romantics and Romanticism

Romantics and Romanticism. Reach Cambridge Explorer Program, 2017 Genny Zimantas. What do we mean when we say ‘Romantic’?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiRWBI0JTYQ. Contexts. Reaction against Neoclassicism Reaction against 18 th cent. Enlightenment

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Romantics and Romanticism

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  1. Romantics and Romanticism Reach Cambridge Explorer Program, 2017 Genny Zimantas

  2. What do we mean when we say ‘Romantic’? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiRWBI0JTYQ

  3. Contexts • Reaction against Neoclassicism • Reaction against 18th cent. Enlightenment • Inspired or invigorated by the French Revolution • Interested in the plight of ordinary men and women, children

  4. Key Elements of Romanticism • Nature • Individual (Genius) • Subjectivity • Imagination • Supernaturalism • Melancholy • Medievalism • Hellenism

  5. English Romantics • Six main poets make up the main ‘canon’ of the Romantic period in England: • William Blake • William Wordsworth • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • John Keats • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Lord (Geogre Gordon) Byron

  6. But there were female Romantics as well… • Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Charlotte Turner Smith • Mary Robinson • Joanna Bailey • Dorothy Wordsworth • Mary Shelley • … and others!

  7. Lyrical Ballads (1798) • Collection of poems by Wordswoth and Coleridge • Generally accepted as the official beginning of the English Romantic period

  8. Ballads • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/ballad • Narrative form of Poetry • Often a hero • Usually rhyming quatrains (abcb) • Alternating four-stress and three-stress lines • Coming from an oral tradition (therefore more populace)

  9. Lyrics • Express feelings and emotions • Originated in Ancient Greece (musical accompaniement – ‘lyre’) • Often in the first person (‘I’, ‘me’) • Often unrhymed • Flexible rhythm

  10. What made this poetry new? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzr1diE4GO8

  11. The Romantic Sublime • Philosophical concept developed by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant • The dynamic and the mathematical sublime • That which is bigger than the self, inspiring awe and teror

  12. The Romantic Sublime • A question of perspective?

  13. "The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature . . . is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other." [Edmund Burke, On the Sublime , 1756 ed. J. T. Bolton. 58]

  14. Keats and ‘Negative Capability’ • ‘several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason’ (Keats in an 1817 letter to his brothers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kY0HlpG8Lw

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