ROMANTICISM

1. ROMANTICISM Starts with the publish of Lyrical Ballads in 1798

2. The Romantic Period • Industrial Revolution Changed the lifestyle of many English people. • Most of the people lived in terrible conditions. • Many artists appealed againist this unhumanistic conditions. • They believed in the importence of the people. • They were called as Romantics

3. Pre-Romanticism • Before Romaticism something had impressed it • Thomas Gray and Graveyard Poets • Gothic works of Horace Walpone and Ann Radcliffe • J.J. Rousseau who questioned impoetence of men’s emotional capacities • German philosopher Immanuel Kant • A German literary movement known as Storm And Stress, led by Goethe, Herder, Schiller • Scottish poet Robert Burns

4. Romantic Poetry • William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon, Byron Percy, Bysshe Shelley and John Keats • These are famous Romantic poems • They didn’t cosider themselves as a part of a movement • But their works had a common quality which were later defined as Romantic

5. Imagination • Imagination had a special role for the Romantics. • Agustan Age considered the artist as an interpreter who tells about already known • Romantic artists prefered to imagine to tell unfamiliar one and the unseen • Through imagination they they wanted to find beuty in the material • Imagination gave them also creativity

6. Nature • Romantic poets were impressed the blief that man had a deep relationship with the natural world. • They considered the nature as a living mirror to the soul

7. Style • Romatics leaved the usage of conventions for writing that had been established in the first half of eighteenth century which was used by Agustants • They wrote in the simple language. • They captured intense emotion of individual experiance in language • This style was closer to everyday speech and more close to the general reader.

8. The Poet • The rise of journalism made artists less depend on noble patrons. • For the first time writers found their own audience

9. Romatic Heroes • The romantic writers considered themselves as a prophet of preaching in the wilderness. • Parallel to this idea heroes were social outcasts • The Rime of Ancient Mariner • Frankenstein

10. The Cult of Childhood • Neo-classics believed that children should be civilised. • The Romantics saw children as pure and uncorrupter. • They believed childrenwere close to God • They could be “Father of the Man”

11. The Past • Due to Industrial Revolution many people felt lonely. • This led Romantics to deal with the past. • Old literary forms such as ballads became popular. • Ballads hads magical atmosphere and haunting settings

12. Criticism • Although the Romantics were very successfull, their contemproraries didn’t appreciate them. • They regarded romantics as unsignificant.

13. End • Romantic period is said to finish in 1832, its influence was felt throughout the century.