19th Century Romanticism Literature Art

Traces roots back to Rousseau, Goethe Reaction to Enlightenment Evident in poetry, music, literature Some appeal to conservatives and the upper classes, some to the working class and those advocating change Longing for the distant past Connected to Nationalism

Romantics loved: Exoticism Faith Love Melancholy Melodrama Middle Ages (Past) Nature

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley England 1797-1851

Percy Bysshe Shelley England 1792-1822

Ode to the West Wind O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The winged seeds, where they lie The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill.

William Blake England 1757-1827

Robert Burns Scotland 1759-1796

Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne!

George Gordon, Lord Byron England 1788-1824

Francisco Goya Spain 1746-1828

The Third of May, 1808—1814

The Disasters of War—1810-20

Caspar David Friedrich Germany 1774-1840

Abbey in an Oak Forest— 1809-10

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog—1818

JMW Turner England 1775-1851

The Fighting Téméraire—1838

John Constable England 1776-1837

The Hay Wain—1821

Eugene Delacroix France 1798-1863

The Bark of Dante, 1821

The Massacre at Chios, 1821

Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1824

Liberty Leading the People, 1832