1. “Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste…” Oliver Goldsmith PowerPoint devised by: Jesse Batterham, Jenna Tingleff, and David Edwards

2.  Emerged in 1700’s.  French Revolution  American Romanticism – Early 1800’s  Incorruptible – Ideals that endure!  New Rebellion.  “Freeeeeeeedom!” –Mel Gibson

3.  Nature  Senses  Feelings  Subjective Poetry  Personal; product of civilization.  Primitivism  The cavemen had it right!  The Supernatural  Rebellion  Transience

4. ENLIGHTENMENT EARLY 1600’S TO LATER 1700’S ROMANTICISM LATER 1700’S TO EARLY 1800’S  Static view.  There is conservatism.  There is uniformity.  There is rationality.  Physics and math.  How life is…  Dynamic view.  There is revolution.  There is diversity.  There are feelings.  Genetics and biology.  How life should be…

5.  Nature  The Raft of the Medusa  - Theodore Géricault Vivid colors and passionate brushstrokes.  War  The Third of May 1808  – Francisco de Goya Messy strokes and dramatic light.

6.  The Specifics:  The role of war.  The role of women.  The Gothic novel.  Wild landscapes.  Edgar Allan Poe.  Lyrical Poetry  Feelings.  What did Romantics seek?  View of society?  Urbanization is a plague.

7.  The Big Three  William Wordsworth (“The Prelude”)  British Poet.  John Keats (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”)  Another British Poet.  Sensual Imagery.  Lord Byron (“Don Juan”)  British Poet. Yes. Another one.  Satirical, epically ironic, and…unfinished.

8. Ode On A Grecian Urn Stanza 3 Ideals of Romanticism: Nature Love Beauty Immortality Time without power. Air of tragedy. “Ah, happy, happy boughs! That cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! More happy, happy love! For ever warm, and still to be enjoy’d, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful And cloy’d, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.” -John Keats

9. Works Cited  “A Brief Guide to Romanticism” www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMI D/5670. 1997-2010. Academy of American Poets. November 2010.  “The Romantic Movement” http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTe xtHistories.asp?historyid=aa73. Gascoigne, Bamber. HistoryWorld. From 2001, ongoing. November 2010.  Emily Hutchinson. Prentice Hall Literature. Los Angeles Unified School District. 2000.