The Romantic Movement
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The Romantic Movement
1789 - 1832
WHEN?• Name and underlying philosophy end of C18
• French contribution – social and political. French Revolution 1789
WHY?• Reaction against contrived phraseology of
Augustan Poets.
• Result of social change.
WHAT?
• “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
• Importance of social change:
new & better ways to live
• Focus on individual
WHAT?
• Greater simplicity of diction
• Sensory impressions
• Childhood recollections
• Poems of meditation and retrospection
WHAT?
•Emotions high
•Intuition
•Wild and picturesque in nature
•Supernatural. Fantasy / mystery
WHO?
• Blake• Shelley• Burns• Coleridge• Pushkin• Brontë Sisters• Keats• Mary Shelley “Frankenstein”• Sir Walter Scott• Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales• Bryon• Wordsworth• French: Lamartine, Baudelairè,
Victor Hugo, George Sand
Wordsworth
Byron
Coleridge
Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
Brontë Sisters
Keats