Romantic period (1798-1837)

ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798-1837)

• artistic, literary, intellectual movement ←origin:Europe  
• very important period of the history of the England
• reaction to
•    -the French revolution
•    -the Industrial Revolution
•    -the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment
•    -the scientific rationalisation of nature.
• Visual arts, music, and literature-> major impact on historiography, education, and natural.
• effect on politics->associated with liberalism and radicalism but nationalism was perhaps more significant.
• In Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) poetry should express personal feelings imagination and emotional pleasures. The truest experience was to be found in nature-> in wild countryside’s the landscape =extension of the human personality, capable of sympathy with man's emotional state or vehicle for spirit just as man; the breath of God fills both man and the earth.
• Romantic poets wrote about the marvellous and supernatural, the exotic, and the medieval. But they also found beauty in the lives of simple rural people and aspects of the everyday world.
• The second generation of romantic poets -> John Keats ->Percy Bysshe ->George Gordon ->Lord Byron->intellectual and emotional sensibility merge in language of great power and beauty +Shelley-> combined soaring lyricism with an apocalyptic political vision
• Rich in literary criticism
•       - Coleridge
•       - William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft->wrote on human, and women's, rights.    
•       - William Hazlitt->who never forsook political radicalism.
•       -Charles Lamb-> the master of the personal essay whereas
•       -Thomas De Quincey->the master of the personal confession.
•     ->leading writers were published in the Edinburgh Review and the Blackwood's Magazine throughout the century, were major forums of controversy, political as well as literary.
• Although the great novelist Jane Austen wrote during the romantic era, her work defies classification. With insight, grace, and irony she delineated human relationships within the context of English country life.

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