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1 Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
O happy living things! No tongue Their beauty might declare’ A spring of love gushed from my heart And I blessed them unaware... The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2 Key elements of Romanticism...

3 Nostalgia Innocence Nature Emotion/Passion Intuition Imagination Religion/Faith Love Chivalry

4 Literature Key Romantic Authors/Works
Victor Hugo (FR) - Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miz Wordsworth, Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads Grimm’s Fairy Tales - nationalistic works that preserve german culture Goethe - Faust, Sorrows of the Young Werther

5 Art - 18th/19th Cent. Emphasis on expression, nature, etc.
Key theme is sublime destructive force of nature Document events of the age

6 Casper David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)

7 Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People

8 Theodore Gericault: Raft of the Medusa


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