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Use creative imagination Focus on nature Importance of myth and symbolism

What Is Romanticism?. Use creative imagination Focus on nature Importance of myth and symbolism Focus on feelings and intuition Freedom and spontaneity Simple language Personal experience, democracy and liberty Fascination with past. Trends. Changing political and social conditions

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Use creative imagination Focus on nature Importance of myth and symbolism

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  1. What Is Romanticism? • Use creative imagination • Focus on nature • Importance of myth and symbolism • Focus on feelings and intuition • Freedom and spontaneity • Simple language • Personal experience, democracy and liberty • Fascination with past

  2. Trends • Changing political and social conditions • Reaction against Industrial Revolution • Revolt against Enlightenment and literary styles • Working long hours in dangerous factories • Development of modern cities

  3. Trends • Interest in chaos and nature • Changing religious views • Rebellion against authority • Crime, madness, suicide

  4. Revolt Against Neoclassicism • Romantic Trends • Stressed imagination and emotion • Valued individuals • Strove for freedom • Represented common people • Interested in supernatural • Neoclassic Trends • Stressed reason and judgment • Valued society • Followed authority • Maintained the aristocracy • Interested in science and technology

  5. Blake Shelley Keats Coleridge Wordsworth Poets of the Romantic Era • William Blake • William Wordsworth • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • George Gordon, Lord Byron • John Keats • Percy Bysshe Shelley Byron

  6. Blake Coleridge Thoughts of British Romantic Poets “…I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” William Blake “ Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.” William Wordsworth “Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  7. Thoughts of British Romantic Poets “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” George Gordon, Lord Byron “What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” John Keats “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” Percy Bysshe Shelley

  8. William Blake 1757-1827 • Visions of ghostly and angelic figures • Possessed mystic “gift of vision” • Born in London November 28, 1757 • Educated at home by mother • Enrolled in drawing school at age ten

  9. Blake’s Death • Suffered from unknown sickness • Experienced stomach pain and chills • Died on August 12th, 1827 • Buried in unmarked grave

  10. Blake’s Works • Songs of Innocence • Songs of Experience • Poetical Sketches • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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