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- 1. Romantic Age Prepared byMegha Trivedi Department of English MKBU
- 2. Romantic Revival (1745– 1798) Romanticism A style in the fine arts and literature Passion over reason Imagination and intuition over logic Full expression of emotion and spontaneous action restrain the order Romanticism contrast with Classism From 18th century to mid – 19th century
- 3. Medieval Romances Flourished inthe 12th century when clerks, working for aristocratic patrons, began to write for a leisured and refined society. Courtly love and romance was the vehicle of a new aristocratic culture which was based in France and spread to other parts of Western Europe. Features of medieval romances that influenced the Romantic movement Romantic Revival 18th century in both England and Germany saw a strong reaction against the rationalistic canons of French classicism.
- 5. Characteristics of Romanticism •Freedom of Expression • Revolt against the Literary Convention • Freedom of Revolution • Freedom of the Common Man • Strong, Original, Authentic Feeling • Natural Language • Individualism • The poet as Prophet • Sublime Beauty of Nature • Idealization of Rural Living (Urban to Rural) • Reform in Politics and Education • Romanticism in Painting • Romantic Music • Romanticism in Literature
- 6. Transitional Poetry Reactionagainst the intellectual Augustan poetry Emphasis on originality and inspiration Portrayed rural, life of the common man in the countryside John Dyer, James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith
- 7. Graveyard Poets orChurchyard Poets • Found inspiration from graveyard • Poems set in graveyard • Focus on the lives of ordinary, undignified characters • Contributed to the melancholy side of Romanticism • Thomas Gray – Gray’s Elegy written in country Churchyard - 1751 • William Collins – wrote Odes • William Cowper
- 8. 1. William Blake •Innocence and Experience • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2. Robert Burns
- 9. Gothic Romance Gothicnovel is a kind of European Romantic, Pseudo medieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror Commonly used setting as castles or monasteries equipped with subterranean passage, dark battlements, hidden panels, and trapdoors The Gothic vogue was initiated in England by Horace Walpole’s immensely successful novel ‘The Castle of Otranto’ (1765) Other Gothic Novelists 1) Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 2) Matthew Gregory – The Monk (1796) 3) William Thomas Beckford – Vathek (1786) 4) William Godwin – Caleb Williams (1794) 5) P B Shelley 6) Mary Shelly – Frankenstein (1818)
- 10. Walter Scott(1771 – 1832) - Scottish writer, Poet and greatest historical novelist - His works such as Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802 -03), The Lady of the Last Minstrel (1805), Waverley (1814) - Waverly novels are a long series of Scottish by Scott, starting from Waverley (1814) - English novels such as Ivanhoe (1819) and Kenilworth (1821)
- 11. Early Romantics (1798– 1815) Principles of Early Romantic Poetry Revolt against Industrialization and modernity Support to rustic life Renaissance of wonder Return to nature
- 12. The Age ofRevolution • American Revolution (1775 – 83) • French Revolution (1789 – 99) • Napoleonic Wars (1803 – 15)
- 13. Features of theAge • Free Trade • Population • Riots • Attitude of Nature • Periodical Writing 1) The Examiner (1808 – 86) started by Leigh Hunt and John Hunt 2) The Edinburgh Review (1802 – 1929) Whig newspaper 3) The Quarterly Review (1809 – 1967) Tory newspaper 4) The Blackwood’s Magazine (1817 – 1980) Tory magazine 5) The London Magazine
- 14. Poets • William Wordsworth(1770 – 1850) • Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 – 1834) • Robert Southey (1774 – 1843)
- 15. Late Romantics andProse Writers (1815 – 1851) • Shared their predecessors’ passion for liberty. • Desire to be free of convention and tyranny. • A new emphasis on the rights and dignity of the individual. • Criticism of the bourgeois society. • Experimentation with form and technique. • Importance of originality. • Rise of realism marked the end of romanticism • Realism rebelled against romanticism but romanticism not died out completely. • Romanticism in Germany and America ( Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Walt Whiteman ) • American considered nature as a haven where the self can fulfil its potential.
- 16. The 2ed GenerationPoets in England • Byron, Shelley, Keats • All three distinct from the lake school of poets • All born at the time of the French revolution
- 17. Novelists • Walter Scott(1771 – 1832) • Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) Prose writers • Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834) • William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830) • Thomas De Quincey (1785 -1859)
- 18. Reference: A ContemporaryEncyclopaedia of English Literature, Volume II, by Kalyani Vallath.
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