1. IMAGINATION “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” John Keats THE CENTRAL CONCEPT OF ROMANTIC ART: –THE PATH TO THE REAL KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY –A CREATIVE FORCE –A PROOF OF THE SUPREMACY OF THE IDEAL ON THE REAL

2. REFUSAL OF CLASSICAL RULES EXPERIMENTATION NO RIGID METRICAL RULES THEORY OF: ORGANIC WHOLE “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all” John Keats

3. POETIC FORMS RETURN TO TRADITIONAL VERSE FORMS –SPENSERIAN STANZA –BLANK VERSE –LYRIC –ODE –FREE VERSE –SONNET

4. THEMES OF POETRY From From : UNIVERSAL AND GENERAL To To : INDIVIDUAL AND PARTICULAR From From : SATIRE AGAINST INDIVIDUALS To To : SATIRE AGAINST SOCIETY

5. San Giorgio Maggiore, J.M.TURNER, 1819