Romanticism

Romanticism

1. International artistic and philosophical movement.

   • Germany England
     • 1770's
       • Lyrical Ballads - Wordswoth
       • Hymns to the night - Novalis
     • 1832
       • Sir Walter Scott
       • Goethe
       • Robert Burns William Blake Schiller Rousseau

2. Imagination

   • Wordsworth Coleridge
   • 'Shaping' creative power
   • Primary faculty
   • Bound up with nature

3. Nature

   • Wittman
   • Work of art
   • Healing power
   • Refuge from artificial
   • Organic
   • Mechanical
   • Sensous nuance

4. Symbolism & Myth

   • Express the inexpressible
   • Allegorical communication
   • Nature emblematic language

5. Emotion, lyric poetry and self

   • Creation of poetry
   • Individual artist
   • Tradition
   • Source of illumination

6. Neoclassicism

   • Versailles neoclassicism
     • 1800 - Lyrical Ballads
   • Poe Schlegel Hawthrone Whitman Victor Hugo
     • Freedom from mechanical rules
   • Mimetic

7. individualism

   • Individual
   • Unique
   • Excentric
   • Opposite neoclassical drama
   • Hero-artist Heaven-storming Prometeus Captain Ahab Cain, Faust Ancient mariner Hester prynne
   • Romantics
     • Boldness
     • Inspired creator
     • free experimentation

8. The romantic artist in society

   • ambivalent
   • Politically - social involved
   • distance from the public
   • interpret through emotions
   • middle class subjects