the romantic age
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The Romantic Age. Anastassia Ševtšenko XIB. Second half of the 18th century Western Europe A revolt against norms of the Age of Enlightenment Period of great change in England Industrial Revolution. Characteristics of Romanticism. Nationalism Love of nature - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Second half of the 18th century
Western EuropeA revolt against
norms of the Age of Enlightenment
Period of great change in England
Industrial Revolution
NationalismLove of natureIntuition, imagination, and feelingsDistant, faraway exotic placesThe Romantic HeroIdealization of women
Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling."
Starts in 1798 - 1st edition of “Lyrical Ballads” by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
SublimeNature
William Blake, William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ever seek to tell thy love,Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth moveSilently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,A traveller came by,Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.
• Created sorrow and sufferance
• Tried to escape from society
• John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron
Music, when soft voices die,Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,Love itself shall slumber on.
Rejected by societySelf – critisismRejects establishednormsMelancholyIsolationThe center of his or
her own existence
Examples: Werther, Don Juan, Mr Darcy