1. PRAKRUTI BHATT
12
2 ND SEM
2013
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
ROMANTICISM

2. ROMANTICISM
 INTRODUCTION
 THE SECOND CREATIVE PERIOD OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE

4. DEFINITION
 “Romanticism is disease, Classism is
health.” -Goethe
 “The return to nature.” -Rousseau
 “The opposite, not of classicism but of
realism, a withdrawal from outer
experience to concentrate upon inner.”
-Abercrombie
 “The reawakening of the life and thought
of the Middle Ages.” -Heine

5. PRINCIPLES
 IMAGINATION
 INDIVIDUALISM
 SUBJECTIVITY
 PREFERENCES TO “PERTICULAR”
 SENSIBILITY

6. SOURCES OF INSPIRATION FOR
ROMANTICISTS
 MIDIEVALISM
 GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION
 NATURE
 THE PREMETIVE
 UTOPIANISM
 THE MECABRE
 POLITICAL LIBERTY

7. VISUAL ART
 Romantic art was emotional, deeply- felt,
individualistic, and exotic.
 It has been described as a reaction to
Neoclassicism, or Anti-classicism.

8. EXAMPLE OF ART

9. MUSIC

10. EXAMPLE OF MUSIC

11. THANK YOU
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