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LITT UK-3-
Romanticism
Question | Answer |
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Romanticism | a pan-european musical, artistic and literary movement, a reaction against the preceding age of reason and the growing industrialisation, radical, progressive politics , romanticized past (medieval), nature over human activity. |
Romanticism dates | (1798 - 1837) publication of lyrical ballads / coronation of queen victoria. |
Agricultural revolution | mid-17th to 19th century, increase in the food supply → rapid population growth. |
The industrial revolution | facilitated by the agricultural revolution, which led to an increased labor force in the cities, emergence of modern recognisable form of capitalism. |
The lake poets | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding figures of English romanticism. |
Lyrical ballads | 1798, a joint collection of Wordsworth and coleridge. |
Poetic manifesto | preface of lyrical ballads by Wordsworth, plain language, ordinary subjects, poet’s role = the voice of the people. |
theory of composition wordsworth | the spontaneous overflow of feelings + emotion recollected in tranquility. |
Coleridge’s poems | show the influence of the gothic. ‘The rime of the ancient mariner’ . |
Lord Byron | “childe harold’s pilgrimage” ; “don juan”, traveled around europe, mostly italy and greece. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | an aristocrat, he was politically radical. early anarchist, married Mary Shelley, author of frankenstein. |
John Keats | 2nd gen of romantic poets, a humble background, postmortem success. |