Romantic poetry and prose
Romantic poet keeps the image of a nation alive and is:
· A visionary
· A free spirit whose most important sense was seeing
· A noble savage
· A wanderer
· An artist as a supremely individual creator
4.TheGreek revival (reasons for its appearance, main characteristic features, types of writings that were inspired by the
Greek revival, etc)
· Developments in the field of archaeology
· Curiosity in the Mediterranean region and the Orient (Rome, Palmire, Balbek, China)
· Hellenizing classicism started replacing buildings with copies of true Greek pillars; people wanted to be
trendy and built Pyramids, obelisks. Later at Baroque times they were replaced with ancient ruins.
· The Elgin Marbles - also called the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of marble sculptures that
originally decorated the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens.