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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