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Romanticism [792-794] More of an artistic movement than a true ideology, romanticism glorified nature, emotion, genius, and imagination. It proclaimed these as antidotes to the Enlightenment and to classicism in the arts, challenging the reliance of reason, symmetry, and cool geometric spaces . . . Chief among the arts of romanticism were poetry, music, and painting, which captured the deep-seated emotion characteristic of romantic expression. [792] Characteristics of Romanticism: Emotion/feelings Escapism/idealism Power of Nature Individualism Rejects Industrial growth
Explain & place each primary source in historical context The ship driven by a storm toward the south pole. `And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow . . . The land of ice, and of fearful sounds where no living thing was to be seen. And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken-- The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around : It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound ! Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797)
William Blake, The Body of Abel Found by Adam & Eve (ca. 1825)
"For oh," say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run or leap -- If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping -- We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground -- Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. E. B. Browning (1806-1861), The Cry of the Children (1844)
Explain & place each primary source in historical context The manufacturing system has been carried among us to an extent unheard of in any former age or country; it has enabled us to raise a revenue which twenty years ago we ourselves should have thought it impossible to support, and it has added even more to the activity of the country than to its ostensible wealth; but in a far greater degree has it diminished its happiness and lessened is security. Adam Smith's book is the code. . . of this system; a tedious and hard-hearted book. . . That book considers man as a manufacturing animal. . . it estimates his importance, not by the sum of goodness and of knowledge which he possesses. . . but by the gain which can be extracted from him. Robert Southey (1774-1843), “On the State of the Poor” (1812)
