Contents 1.The definition ll.The background lll.The basic aims IV.The emphases V.The elements of Romanticism VI.Romanticism:A Poetic Age
Contents ❖ I. The definition ❖ II. The background ❖ III. The basic aims ❖ IV. The emphases ❖ V. The elements of Romanticism ❖ VI. Romanticism: A Poetic Age
l.Definition a complex artistic,literary,and intellectual movement originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe gained strength during the Industrial Revolution
I. Definition ❖ a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement ❖ originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe ❖ gained strength during the Industrial Revolution
a philosophical revolt against rationalism a literary revolt against classicism
❖ a philosophical revolt against rationalism ❖ a literary revolt against classicism
beginning Wordsworth first started in Germany Coleridge Lyrical Ballads In England:begun in 1798 with Other Poems the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
beginning ❖ first started in Germany ❖ In England: begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
The German poet Friedrich Schlegel given credit for first using the term romantic to describe literature defined it as "literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form
❖ The German poet Friedrich Schlegel given credit for first using the term romantic to describe literature defined it as “literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form