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1. Approximate dates of romanticism : in the second half of the 18th century.
Major events on world history at that time:
  • Industrial revolution
  • In America the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
  • The French Revolution, 1789
  • The King of England was George III, after him George IV and then Queen Victoria

Outcomes:

2. Romanticism is a reaction against classicism , science and atomic (aesthetic ideal of order and unity ) worldview.
Romantic ideal is the organic world.
Romanticism:
  • Returns to nature and belief in the goodness of mankind
  • Exaltation of the senses and emotion overcome reason and intellect

is the time when novels became more important
  • Imagination is very important, it is a God-like creator
(W. Blake : “I know that this world is a World of Imagination and Vision ”)
3. Romantic image of the poet
The poet was a learned man who also knew how to appreciate nature. He was in spiritual marriage between the mind and the external world. Poets believed that emotions were universal and almost inexpressible. They were always looking for smth. new, but also fought against previous literary styles and argued with philosophers from the 18th c and earlier.
Romantic poet keeps the image of a nation alive and is:
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.
  • Pyramids, obelisks – eclecticism (was trendy, those things were built again )
  • Philhellenism - Hellas ( Greece ) Philia (Love) a love for Greece; lords gave money to the people of Greece to fight against the Ottoman empire
  • New awareness of Greek Heritage – the Ottoman (Turkish) empire had subdued (conquered) Greece – 1821 revolt against them (Supporter Lord Byron )
  • Nationalistic pride takes over by 1830s – Gothic as the national style

5. The Grand Tour as the main source of inspiration and part of education
The Grand Tour was a pilgrimage. Young men (later women also) got to know the history, especially the Renaissance . During that trip, they also learned different skills that prepared them for a leadership position at home. Only the wealthy could afford that because it lasted several years .
It started from Dover , passed Paris (learned dancing, riding), Florence , Pisa ( studying Renaissance), Rome (study
Classical ruins), Greece and ended in Dover. It also passed many other places , but these were the most important.
Greece was important because ancient Greece gave inspiration and it started the Greek revival.
6. Characteristics of romantic nature poetry and main representatives
Characteristics of romantic nature poetry:
  • Genuine pleasure found in the natural world
  • Inspiration
  • Morality
  • Health (opposed to smoky industrial urban scenes)
  • Natural and pure : children and animals
Some authors : Wordsworth, Coleridge , Byron , Shelly , Keats , Burns , Southey, Cowper, and Thomson .
Predecessors: Theocritus – Greek pastoral poet, whose Idylls are set in Arcadia , Virgil, Horace, Spenser, Milton ’s – The Garden of Eden from the Paradise Lost.
Influences :
7. G.G. Byronmajor works: 1806 Hours of Idleness
1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
1813 - 1818
Childe Harold ’s Pilgrimage – a partly autobiographical narrative poem that describes the travels and reflections of a world- weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands; in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post- Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
1813 The Giaour; The Bride of Abydos
1814 The Corsair; Lara
1815 Hebrew melodies
1816 Parisina ; The Prisoner of Chillon; The Dream ; Prometheus ; Darkness
1817 Manfred-a ghost story; The Lament of Tasso
1818 Beppo
1819 Mazeppa; The Prophecy of Dante
1820 Marino Faliero
1821 Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain
1819-1824 Don Juan a long, digressive satiric poem, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan as someone who is easily seduced by women.
Characteristics of Byron’s poetry:
Strength and masculinity
Unflowery and colloquial language
Strong feelings
Little use of imagery
P.B. Shelley – major works:
1813Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes was the first large poetic work a foundation to his theory of revolution brought along by nature and the virtuousness of humans.
1815 Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude Alastor comes from Roman mythology , meaning “ evil genius”. The name does not refer to the hero or Poet of the poem, but instead to the spirit who divinely animates the Poet’s imagination.
1817 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
1817 The Revolt of Islam is a poem cantered on two characters named Laon and Cythna, who initiate a bloodless revolution against the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Despite its title, the poem does not have anything to do with Islam in particular , though the general subject of religion is addressed.
1920 Prometheus Unbound is a four -act poetic play concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus . It is inspired by Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound and concerns Prometheus’ release from captivity . However, unlike Aeschylus’ version , there is no reconciliation between Prometheus and Zeus in Shelley’s narrative. Instead, Zeus is overthrown, which allows Prometheus to be released.
1821 A Defence of Poetry is an essay, first published posthumously in 1840. It was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock’s article The Four Ages of Poetry, where Peacock claimed that poetry though beautiful is utterly useless. Shelley argues that poetry brings about moral good , exercises and expands the imagination, and the imagination is the source of sympathy, compassion , and love, which rest on the ability to project oneself into the position of another person .
1822 The triumph of Life an elegy, unfinished, published in 1824 after Shelley died.
Characteristics of Shelley’s poetry:
Themes : beauty, the passions, nature, political liberty, creativity, and the sanctity of the imagination
Idealism – belief in the goodness of mankind
Revolutionary ides about politics , marriage, women
Atheism
Philosophical relationships
Metaphorical language
Sensuous aestheticism
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement . During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry; including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature .
Ode is a form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse . A classic ode is structured in three parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist.
8. A Defence of Poetry by Shelley: Main ideas : poetry brings about moral good, exercises and expands the imagination, and the imagination is the source of sympathy, compassion, and love, which rest on the ability to project oneself into the position of another person.
9. Novel in the Romantic era: main genres: essays , pamphlets, novels.
Main ideas and writers : 1) Attack and defence of poetry (Love Peacock vs. Shelley) – William Hazlit.
2) Politics: utilitarianism, urbanism, socialism, and anarchy – Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine , Edmund Burke , and William Godwin.
3) Quest for national style: the rise of the historical and gothic novels – Sir Walter Scott , Horace Walpole.
4) Women writers and feminist ides: the rise of literacy amongst women, equality ideas – Jane Austen , Mary Hays.
Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 - 1832 )– Scottish historical novelist and poet; wrote: ballads, narrative poetry, and verse tales, novels. He wrote Waverley , a novel, which did not name its author (got success ). Over the next years, he wrote a number of novels, each with a historical setting . He maintained the anonymous habit he had begun with Waverley. He became unfamos, when Austen’s star rose .
Jane Austen – is considered merely an entertaining “ woman ’s novelist” in the 19th century. She was seen as the major English novelist of the first decades of the 19th c.
Austen wrote about upper-middle class society and women’s role in it. The society is secure in its values , privileges
and snobbery . Her created society defines itself in terms of land, money and class:
Praises good conduct, manners, sound reason, marriage as an admirable social institution; Practicality; Stresses the importance of learning and education of women. Novels of manners: good conduct, sound reason, marriage as an admirable social institution, and novels of sensibility to a degree even realistic. Regional Novels: Bath/Southampton/London.
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1. approximate dates of romanticism: in the second half of the 18th century
2. romanticism
3. romantic image of the poet
4. the greek revival
5. the grand tour as the main source of inspiration and part of education
6. characteristics of romantic nature poetry and main representatives
7. g. g. byron: major works
8. p. b. shelley: major works
9. john keats
10. a defence of poetry by shelley
11. novel in the romantic era
12. sir walter scott
13. jane austen

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