1. ENGLISH ROMANTICISM British historians say it was approximately… …from 1798… …to 1832 when… …Lyrical Ballads. …Wordsworth and Coleridge… ….published… …their first edition of… when… …the first Reform Act was passed… …inaugurating the stability of the… …Victorian Age.

2. At the beginning of the FRENCH REVOLUTION, English Romantic writers were ………………… about it. It was a ………….. period: turbulent Industrial Revolution American Revolution French Revolution Napoleonic Wars enthusiastic WHY? Because they loved the ……..… of the FRENCH REVOLUTION FREEDOM EQUALITY FRATERNITY ideals

3. English Romantic writers became DISILLUSIONED with the violence of the period of TERROR BUT LATER the emergence of NAPOLEON

4. low wages employment of children long hours of work technological unemployment terrible working conditions IN ENGLAND THERE WERE MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS no right to vote no trade unions It led to LUDDISM machine-breaking in factories

5. The state’s answer was…. REPRESSION DID THE STATE TRY TO SOLVE THESE SOCIAL PROBLEMS? NO The most shocking episode was…. The PETERLOO MASSACRE In 1819 soldiers killed 11 people during a peaceful public meeting

6. IN THIS HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT…… REASON… …THE KEYWORD OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: …provedpowerlessto solve the social evils of the time: the misery of industrialisation

7. AND ALSO FROM A LITERARY POINT OF VIEW…. REASON… …THE KEYWORD OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: …had ledto the repression of emotions and feelings REASON had become a mental prison

8. THEREFORE … a reaction AGAINST ROMANTICISM was… the faith in REASON of the previous age(the Enlightenment) THEREFORE ROMANTICISM was characterised by… … the supremacy of EMOTIONS FEELINGS IMAGINATION

9. WHAT WAS THE MAIN LITERARY GENRE IN ROMANTICISM? WHAT WAS THE BEST MEANS TO GIVE EXPRESSION TO FEELINGS AND IMAGINATION? POETRY

10. THE MAIN FEATURES OF ROMANTICISM: a growing interest in humble and everyday life nature and the countryside were exalted (in opposition to the industrial town)

11. THE MAIN FEATURES OF ROMANTICISM: a revival of interest in the Middle Ages, a new taste for the desolate, the love of ruins and graveyards (especially in the Gothic novel)

12. THE MAIN FEATURES OF ROMANTICISM: the cult of the exotic the importance of imagination and childhood

13. THE MAIN FEATURES OF ROMANTICISM: individualism (man in the solitary state not corrupted by society) the source of poetry is not in the outer world but in the poet’s INNER FEELINGS Rousseau

14. The great English Romantic poets are usually divided into two generations: The FIRST generation The so-called LAKE POETS W. Wordsworth S. T. Coleridge The SECOND generation P.B. Shelley G.G. Byron J. Keats