Download presentation
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
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
Similar presentations
© 2025 SlidePlayer.com. Inc.
All rights reserved.