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Romanticism

Romanticism. A brief introduction. In pairs:. Discuss the difference between ‘romantic’ and ‘Romantic’, as you understand them. Note down the names of any Romantic writers with whom you are familiar. Do you notice a set of values or ideals that spread across their works?. First Generation:.

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism A brief introduction

  2. In pairs: • Discuss the difference between ‘romantic’ and ‘Romantic’, as you understand them. • Note down the names of any Romantic writers with whom you are familiar. • Do you notice a set of values or ideals that spread across their works?

  3. First Generation: • Includes Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt. • These writers followed the thinking of JJ Rousseau. They deliberately turned away from the idea of Original Sin, believing that children were born innocent and corrupted by society – ‘The child is father of the man’ Wordsworth • They turned away from traditional religions, favouring an idea called pantheonism - a belief in an overall ‘energy’.

  4. What implications do you think these beliefs may have had on their subject matter? • The writers believed in responding to natural beauty. • They drew a distinction between the picturesque (a thing of beauty, but expected, premeditated beauty) and the sublime (a piece of transcendental beauty that was both surprising and cathartic)

  5. How do you think these beliefs tied in with their political ideals? • Part of what the Romantic poets were reacting to was the destruction of nature (innocence) through the Industrial Revolution (humanity) • The First Generation Romantics attached a great deal of importance to the French Revolution – a reaction against the Monarchy and a push towards the natural ideal of Rousseau. • Inevitably, as the French Revolution ended in disaster, the First Generation Romantics became disillusioned with their ideals.

  6. Second Generation Romantics • This movement included writers such as Shelley, Keats, Byron. • They, following the disappointment of the First Generation Romantics, moved towards an idea of finding pure beauty, almost becoming obsessed in their search for transcendental beauty to take them away from the ‘misery’ of the world.

  7. In groups of four: • Relate the information that you have on Romantics to your knowledge of the Keats poems that you have read. How might these poems, these ideas, link to the themes of narrative that you have discussed with Mr. James?

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