1. The Romantic Age Frank Lüübek XI B

2. General information ► Romanticism… ► Was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement. ► Originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe ► Was a revolt against aristocratic, social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment.

3. History ► Artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th- century convention. ► The French Revolution and its aftermath had the strongest impact of all. ► Most English intellectuals renounced the Revolution. ► The romantic vision had taken forms other than political, and these developed quickly.

4. The 1st period of the Romantic age ► The publication of "Lyrical Ballads“ in 1798. ► Collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ► Changed the course of English literature and poetry. ► Most of the poems were written by Wordsworth. ► Coleridge contributed only four poems to the collection. ► “The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner”

5. The 1st period of the Romantic age ► Other Literary scholars place the start much earlier, around 1785. ► Robert Burns's Poems (1786) ► William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" (1789) ► A change had taken place in political thought and literary expression. ► Charles Lamb, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott.

6. The 2nd period of the Romantic age ► Second generatin of romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. ► Died young. ► Wanted to seperate themselves from the older poets. ► Wanted to be different and even better.

7. The Romantic Hero ► First began appearing in works of Byron, Shelley, Goethe. ► Romantic hero has been rejected by society. ► Focus on the characters thoughts. ► Introspection, melancholy, misanthropy and isolation. ► Regret for his actions, and self-criticism. ► Hugo’s Gwynplaine, Chateaubriand's René, Tolstoy’s Andrei Bolkonsky.

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