The Romantic Movement

The Romantic Era

The EnlightenmentLate 17th – Late 18th Century

Western civilization’s attempt to seek through reason a means to understand human problems without involving conflicting traditions

The search for universal meaning and understanding.

Science & the relief of suffering

A Reaction to Rational Moralism1

A defence in the face of a changing world

A response to German Idealism3

‘Chaos is the law of nature; order the dream of man’ – John Adams

The creative mind brings coherence and meaning

George Eliot - ‘Middlemarch’

The role of the Artist

‘I must create my own system or become enslaved to another man’s vision’ – William

The tyranny of the system

Reason vs. Imagination

Communion with Nature

Prometheus – the Romantic hero

Originality vs. Craft

The Struggle of the Artist

Lord Byron

‘We murder to dissect’The Tables Turned - Wordsworth

An adolescent movement?

What happens when a Romantic meets the ‘real world’?

Why did the Civil Rights movement ‘succeed’ while the Hippy movement was ultimately ineffectual?

What happens when a Romantic runs out of steam?

The salvation of memory?

What happens when a Romantic hero gets too old?

The hero revisions the world

The world destroys the hero

The ‘tamed’ hero

The Romantic hero tends to be:

A sensitive man of feelingA rebellious outsiderA traveller / a QuesterA visionarySeeks union with the infinite

The Romantic aesthetic embraced:

MadnessCriminalityAbnormal behaviourPornographyExcessThe irrationality of experience

Anything which was considered off limits by the rational moralists of the Enlightenment.

Our Post-Romantic Inheritance

A divided life

Social justiceEqualityMoralityReform

Self definitionIndividualism

The Political Impotence of the Artist

Complicated Enrichment!

The Romantic Movement

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