Lecture on Romanticism in Literature



Background on Romanticism in the Arts

I. Introduction and dates

A. Literature and visual art:

• end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century

• Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)

• About the same time frame in visual art

B. Music: all of 19th century

Longer period with music: includes all of the 19th century (no realistic period in music)

C. Response to the Enlightenment

D. Connection to French Revolution

Romanticism in the arts

Chopin’s “Tristesse” Etude in E

J. M. W. Turner: Keelman Heaving in Coals by Night

III. Definition/characteristics of Romanticism in literature

A. The Self

B. Emotion

William Wordsworth: “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”

C. Nature

1. Sublime and Beautiful

2. Spiritual connection

D. Religious/Christian

E. Opening up of literary forms/ not “poetic diction”

F. Supernatural/gothic

IV. Conclusion

Shift from society to individual

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