English Romanticism
The English Romantic Period
(1798 - 1837)
connected with the French, American, and English Industrial Revolutions
The Romantics focused on the individual rather than society. They attacked all sorts of appresion and the evil of industrialism. Whereas the writers of the age of Reason regarded evil as a basic part of human nature, the romantic writers saw humanity as naturally good, but corrupted by society and its institutions of religion, education and government.
Romantic writers supported the theortu of Phanteism (this theory says that natura is divine and that nature and God and the only two powers in this world; nature is considered a part of God)
man's emotions and senses, not his mind or reason, are the path to the truths of existance
the romantic writers seek for personal inspiration in the mysticism of oriental and medieval myths, legends, ballads,. They were fascinated by the mysterious, exotic, far-off.
Alination of the individual from society
freedom of style and form
new lyrical characters appear - the child, the peasent, the noble savage
the place of Nature is furthermore than scenery
the romantic poets are divided in 2 generations:
1. The Lake Poets
William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth
they laid the main principles
they say that poetry should be written in the simple language of ordinary people
the poet is considered a prophit of truth, who is looking for the hidden mysteries of the life itself.
2. Byron, Kelly, Keats
they were more revolutionary minded
in their poems they expressed their love of freedom, hateret of appression and so onТрябва да сте регистриран потребител, за да коментирате материалите.
