1. Romance literature in the
period of Romanticism ( ) uses the term in the sameway we used it in the Medieval
Period:
freely imaginative,
idealizing fiction.

2. The British Romantic Movement
was a reaction against the long
period, The Age of Reason (1660-
1798), which came before it.
In 1798, Wordsworth and
Coleridge published a book of
poetry, Lyrical Ballads, which
began British Romanticism.

3. Age of Reason:
stressed judgment and reason
Romantic Period:
stressed imagination and emotion
stressed society as a whole
stressed the individual

4. Age of Reason:
stressed authority,rules,order
Romantic Period:
championed freedom

5. Imagination Intuition Key words to remember for Romanticism:
Individualism
Imagination
Intuition
(…the 19th century hippies)

6. Robert Burns ( )
Hailed as the national poet of
Scotland… “Scotish Bard”
Wrote from the mindset and
in the language of the common
man…
Strong advocate of French
Revolution...

7. William Blake ( )
Songs of Innocence and Experience
..his famous collection of poems
..points out his belief in the need
for both childlike innocence and
the wisdom gained from experience

8. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
“All good poetry is the
spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings…recollected in tranquility.”
W. in Lyrical Ballads
“…to reveal the romance
inherent in the commonplace.”

9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
( )
“…a reader should come to poetry
ready to participate with that
willing suspension of disbelief
which is poetic faith.”
C. in Lyrical Ballads
“…to handle the bizarre and make incredible-seem common.”

10. George Gordon, Lord Byron
( )
“…a little tumult, now and then,
is an agreeable sensation…for the
great object of life is sensation--
to feel that we exist, though
even in pain.”

11. “Human nature is essentially good…and we can improve
Percy Bysshe Shelley
( )
“Human nature is essentially
good…and we can improve
ourselves and our world.”
his wife Mary wrote the famous gothic romance novel Frankenstein

12. John Keats (1795-1821) -died at 25 of tuberculosis
“Art is the highest expression
of truth.”
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”