PAPER: ROMANTIC LITERATURE

TOPIC: GENERAL CHARECTERISTICS OF THE ROMANTIC AGE PREPARED BY : AVANI N. DAVEM.A. - SEM – 2ROLL NO: 02 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMAR SINHJI ,BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY.

Romantic revival : time: 1798 -1832

What is Romanticism :

Liberalism in literature – Victor Hugo

A Simple Expression of life as seen by imagination

“The addition of strangeness to beauty” – Pater

• Introduction:

Characteristics of The Age :1. Individualism: No set pattern The form and subject matter are different or treated

differently so endless variety2. Free play of Imagination & Emotion : “ Casement, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn”. - Coleridge 3. Humanitarian outlook: Reasons replaced by Emotion. Sympathy for fellow men.

4. Interest in Nature and Country life: Romantic poet Transferred their interest from town to

countrty life. “ Nature never did betray, The heart that loves her”. 5. Interest in the past and the Exotic: Escaped to the remote in time (medievalism) and place Bishop Percy's “ Reliques of Ancient English poetry”. Various elements in work of Keats, Coleridge, and Scott6. Love for Beauty: Keats as the supreme lover of beauty says, “ A thing of

beauty is joy forever ”. Philosophical and Physical concept of beauty in poetry

7. Love for Liberty and Freedom: Simplicity and freedom to present whatever and however poet liked. Against bondage and taboos8. Subjectivity: Individuality in outlook Lucas says, “ It was an expression of ‘id’. 9. Supernaturalism: ‘ The rime of Ancient Mariner’ by Coleridge and

‘Isabella’, are such poems with supernaturalism. Conclusion:

This Presentation is Submitted to Department of English, maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University.

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