Romantic+Literature

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-Began in 1789 mainly centered in England and Germany

 * **1789- Wordsworth and Coleridge publishes //Lyrical Ballads// and composition of //Hymns to the Night// by Novalis-**
 * said to have been the first Romantic texts

-Ended in 1832

 * **1832- the death of Sir Walter Scott and Goethe**

__However:__
Romanticism was an international movement and it affected artists and people everywhere from the 1770s to the late nineteeth century. Coincided with the "age of Revolutions"- the time of the French Revolution and the American Revolution

**__Characteristics:__**

 * Imagination was revered
 * Broke the "rules" of literature [[image:romantics.jpg align="right"]]
 * Did not want restraints
 * United reason and feelings to create a whole other plane
 * Love of Nature
 * Idealize country life
 * Recognize the ills of society as a result of urbanization
 * a means of divine relation
 * Symbolism and Myths
 * Considered human aesthetic correlatives of nature's emblematic language
 * valued because they could mean many things at once
 * thought superior to one-to-one communications of allegories
 * Emotions
 * Emphasis on intuition, instincts and feelings
 * Poetry was an illumination of the world within
 * not reflection of the outside world
 * Lyric Poetry
 * writing to go with the internal flow of feelings
 * Complete contrast to Neoclassism
 * the replaced reason with the imagination as primary place among the human faculties
 * shifted from a mimetic to an expressive orientation for poetry
 * The Self
 * Individualism
 * The Romantic Hero
 * Asserted the importance of the individual
 * Opposed Neoclassic characters
 * This era created new character types:
 * The hero-artist
 * The outcast
 * The heaven-storming types
 * Attracted to rebellions and revolutions
 * Concerned with human rights and freedom from oppression
 * The Everyday and the Exotic
 * ======Started to use everyday objects to represent other deeper meanings======
 * ======At the same time, exotic times and places were explore more throughly in literature during this time.======
 * ======Revival of Religion's Influence======
 * ======Mostly Christian and Catholicism======

__Writers__

 * William Blake
 * Lord Byron- //She Walks in Beauty//, //When We Two Parted//
 * Robert Burns- //A Red, Red Rose//, //A Man's A Man for A' That//,
 * Samuel Coleridge-//The Rime of the Ancient Mariner//
 * John Keats
 * Mary W. Shelley- //Frankenstein//
 * Sir Walter Scott- //The Patriot//
 * William Wordsworth- //The World is Too Much With Us//
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- //Faust//

__**Ironies:** Started in Germany and England so, the strongholds of Romanticism were not the areas that developed the romance languages.__ Scavenger Hunt Questions:
 * == [|Who are two famous poets of the Romantic time?] ==
 * == [|How was the idea of imagination treated during Romanticism?] ==
 * == [|What character types were first introduced during this time?] ==
 * == [|What is ironic about where Romanticism started?][[image:pilklg.jpg align="right"]] ==
 * == [|When did Romanticism begin? end?] ==