1. Starts with the publish of Lyrical Ballads in 1798
ROMANTICISM
Starts with the publish of Lyrical Ballads in 1798

2. The Romantic Period
Industrial Revolution Changed the lifestyle of many English people.
Most of the people lived in terrible conditions.
Many artists appealed againist this unhumanistic conditions.
They believed in the importence of the people.
They were called as Romantics

3. Pre-Romanticism Before Romaticism something had impressed it
Thomas Gray and Graveyard Poets
Gothic works of Horace Walpone and Ann Radcliffe
J.J. Rousseau who questioned impoetence of men’s emotional capacities
German philosopher Immanuel Kant
A German literary movement known as Storm And Stress, led by Goethe, Herder, Schiller
Scottish poet Robert Burns

4. Romantic Poetry
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon, Byron Percy, Bysshe Shelley and John Keats
These are famous Romantic poems
They didn’t cosider themselves as a part of a movement
But their works had a common quality which were later defined as Romantic

5. Imagination Imagination had a special role for the Romantics.
Agustan Age considered the artist as an interpreter who tells about already known
Romantic artists prefered to imagine to tell unfamiliar one and the unseen
Through imagination they they wanted to find beuty in the material
Imagination gave them also creativity

6. Nature
Romantic poets were impressed the blief that man had a deep relationship with the natural world.
They considered the nature as a living mirror to the soul

7. Style
Romatics leaved the usage of conventions for writing that had been established in the first half of eighteenth century which was used by Agustants
They wrote in the simple language.
They captured intense emotion of individual experiance in language
This style was closer to everyday speech and more close to the general reader.

8. The Poet
The rise of journalism made artists less depend on noble patrons.
For the first time writers found their own audience

9. Romatic Heroes
The romantic writers considered themselves as a prophet of preaching in the wilderness.
Parallel to this idea heroes were social outcasts
The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Frankenstein

10. The Cult of Childhood
Neo-classics believed that children should be civilised.
The Romantics saw children as pure and uncorrupter.
They believed childrenwere close to God
They could be “Father of the Man”

11. The Past Due to Industrial Revolution many people felt lonely.
This led Romantics to deal with the past.
Old literary forms such as ballads became popular.
Ballads hads magical atmosphere and haunting settings

12. Criticism
Although the Romantics were very successfull, their contemproraries didn’t appreciate them.
They regarded romantics as unsignificant.

13. End
Romantic period is said to finish in 1832, its influence was felt throughout the century.