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ROMANTICISM
“It was my heart that counseled me to do it, and my heart cannot err.”
ROMANTICISM = a new intellectual movement1.Emerged at end of 18th cent2.Challenged enlightenment thinking3.Sources of knowing – intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination4.The heart is more important than the head
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CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM• The misunderstood youth
• Individualism1. Go your own way/follow inner drives2. Reject conformity3. Rebel against middle class values –
long hair, beards, crazy clothes
• Stress on the heroic1. The hero was a solitary genius2. Defy the world/sacrifice for great causes3. Transform society
• Passionate interest in the past
• The bizarre, unusual, and grotesque
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THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
1. Novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. Werther becomes a hero and model of the Romantics
3. Young misunderstood truth seeking – girl he loves rejects him and he commits suicide
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ROMANTIC POETS AND THE LOVE OF NATUREPERCY SHELLEYWILLIAM WORDSWORTHJOHN KEATSLORD BYRON
Love of nature1.Nature was raw and untamed2.Nature could get you in touch with the divine3.Pantheism = god is everywhere/in everything
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The World Is Too Much With UsBy William Wordsworth 1770–1850
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
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The ROMANTICS REJECTED1. COLD CALCULATING
RATIONALISM OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
2. MATERIALISM3. SCIENCE WAS
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
4. EMERGING INDUSTRIALIZATION = DEHUMANIZING AND ALIENATING
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ROMANTICISM IN ART
1. Artistic expression = reflection of artist’s inner feelings2. Rejection of the restraint of classicism3. Emphasized warmth, emotion, movement
PAINTERS –CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICHJ.MW. TURNEREUGENE DELACROIX
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon”
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J. M. W. Turner- “The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken”
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“THE NIGHTMARE” – Romanticism
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ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC• 18TH century = Classicism• 19th century = Romanticism
1. Ludwig van Beethovena. 9 symphoniesb. piano works – Moonlight Sonata, the Appasionata,
the Pathetique2. Hector Berlioz
a. French romantic composerb. Symphony Fantastique
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THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM• Revival of Protestantism in Europe in the late 18th- early 19th
cent -> “the great awakening”
1.Methodism in Britain2.Pietism in Germany