General Characteristics of Romanticism: ·It values feelings and intuition.直觉over reason The power of imagination The beauty of unspoiled nature Youthful innocence Individual freedom
General Characteristics of Romanticism: • It values feelings and intuition直觉 over reason • The power of imagination • The beauty of unspoiled nature • Youthful innocence • Individual freedom
Poetry is the highest expression of imagination. The lessons of the past,myth,legend, and folk culture. ·The beauty in the exotic异国的，the supernatural,and in the imagination
Poetry is the highest expression of imagination. • The lessons of the past, myth, legend, and folk culture. • The beauty in the exotic异国的, the supernatural, and in the imagination
Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Romantic---love(partly)(mainly)man and the world
Introduction to Romanticism • Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. • Romantic---love(partly)—(mainly)man and the world
The Romantic period(narrowly) Beginning in 1798,the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.抒情歌谣by Wordsworth and Coleridge Ending in 1832,the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe
The Romantic period(narrowly) • Beginning in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣 by Wordsworth and Coleridge • Ending in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe
Extended Period At least in the 1770's till the second half of the nineteenth century,later for American literature than for European; o and later in some of the arts,like music and painting,than in literature
Extended Period • At least in the 1770's till the second half of the nineteenth century, later for American literature than for European; • and later in some of the arts, like music and painting, than in literature