Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Romantics/ Romanticism
- The Sublime
- Sublime reaction to nature
- Majestic, wild sometimes savage.
Viewers overwhelmed, awe-struck
sometimes terrified by the sublime
- Natural phenomena, mountains waterfalls,
turbulent seas and thunderstorms "delightful terrors"
inspired by sublime visions.
- Reminds viewers of
insignificance in the force of
nature
- Characterised by 5 "I's"
- Imagination
- emphasised over "reason". Imagination
necessary for creating all art.
- Intuition
- Feelings or instincts rather than
reason, emotions important
- Idealism
- Can make the world a better place
- Inspiration
- Spontaneous
rather than
precise
- Individuality
- Celebrate the individual. During this time period
Womens Rights and Abolitionism taking root as
major movements
- Literature
- American Romanticism most strongly impacted literature
- Writers explored supernatural and gothic themes
- Definition
- Romanticism refers to a movement in art, literature and music
during the 18th and 19th centuries philosophical, literary artistic
and cultural era
- Reverence for the natural world. Physical
and emotional passion. Interest in the
mythic and supernatural.
- Spontaneity in Romantic Poetry. Movement was still concerned
with composition of translating emotive response into poetic
form. Many favoured the Sonnet Form
- Origins
- Reaction against Neo-classism. Links back to courtly love and chivalry
- Began to take root as a movement following the French Revolution
- Say it as a means for change.
- Reaction against Enlightenment ideas of the day. And Industrial Revolution
- Visual Arts
- Neo-classical art
- rigid, severe, unemotional. Ancient Greece and Rome
- Romantic Art
- emotional, individualistic, exotic. Reaction to Neoclassicism.
- Romantic Poets - Order of Birth
- 1. William Blake
- 2. William Wordsworth
- 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 4. Lord Byron
- 5. Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 6. John Keats