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2. Romanticism refers to a movement in art,
literature, and music during the 19th
century.
Romanticism is characterized by the 5 “I”s
1. Imagination
2. Intuition
3. Idealism
4. Inspiration
5. Individuality

3. Imagination over “reason.”
Against rationalism
Imagination  necessary for creating all art.
British writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge called
it “intellectual intuition.”

4. Romantics  value on “intuition,” or feeling
and instincts
Emotions  important
British Romantic William Wordsworth
described poetry as “the spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings.”

5. Idealism  make the world a better place
Idealism  emphasizes the spirit, the mind,
or language over matter
Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, held
that the mind forces the world we perceive to
take the shape of space-and-time.

6. The Romantic artist, musician, or writer,
 “inspired creator” rather than a
“technical master.”
“going with the moment” or being
spontaneous, rather than “getting it
precise.”

7. Romantics celebrated the individual.
Women’s Rights and Abolitionism on the
rise.
Walt Whitman, a later Romantic writer,
would write a poem entitled “Song of
Myself”: it begins, “I celebrate myself…”

8. Romantic means:
1. The loving or potentially loving
relationships b/w men and women.
2. A way of looking at the world that looks
beyond, or ignores, the world as it is and
perceives a visionary world.

9.  The most important event that led to the
Romantic period (1789-1830):
 The French revolution – which was supposed to
create a new society in France, creating a model
for the world that would lead to the liberation of
the human spirit.

10.  The revolution accomplished none of these
things.
 The Treaty of Versailles in 1815.
 Young people profoundly disappointed.

11.  Blake bitterly attacked the social,
political, and spiritual abuses.
 Wordsworth nostalgic & democratic.
 Shelley's poetry consistently
revolutionary.

12.  Poetry  Spontaneous overflow of feelings
 the essence  the mind, emotions, & imagi-
nation of the poet (not the outer world).

13.  First-person lyric poem  the major
romantic literary form
 “I” often referring directly to the poet.

14.  Initial act of poetic composition must arise
from impulse; be free from the rules inherited
from the past; and rely on instinct, intuition,
& feeling.

15.  William Blake, an
engraving by his wife
Catherine done in
1785, when Blake
was 28.

17.  Died before he
turned 30

18.  Reaction to the literature and, especially,
the thinking and practice of the 18th
century.
 The 18th
century Age of Enlightenment:
John Locke and Isaac Newton.

19.  Political and moral
philosopher.
 Empiricism.
 No room for feeling,
intuition, or vision.

20.  Newton discovered the laws of gravity, and
generally, the laws of motion.
 Newtonian physics describe the non-living
world, at least before the discoveries of
quantum mechanics.

21.  This is the earliest
portrait of Sir Isaac
Newton (1689). The
artist was Godfrey
Kneller, perhaps the
greatest portrait
painter of his day.

22.  Newtonian physics.
 Science will discover everything.

23.  God the Watchmaker.
 Science will discover all principles.
 No room for miracles, vision, or revelation.

24.  Rebellion against rules.

25.  Romantic belief in the individual and
democracy.
 But emphasis more often on the
outstanding individual.

26.  Alone, contemplating nature, working out
their own destinies.

27.  Byron, the most
popular poet of the
19th
century in
England and the US.
Known for his lonely,
heroic protagonists.

28.  Great innovation.
 Sought poetic forms beyond the 18th
century heroic couplet
 Romantic sonnet, ode, ballad, and others.
 Blake invents his own form.