Romantic Period in Literature PDF

 As a term was coined in the 1840s by friedrich schlegel  The movement has been around since the late 18th century: in England ( shelly , Keats, Byron and wordsworth )..in France ( victor Hugo ) and in Germany ( Goethe , Hegel ).  Main thematic tread is that reason ( the catchphrase...

 As a term was coined in the 1840s by friedrich schlegel  The movement has been around since the late 18th century: in England ( shelly , Keats, Byron and wordsworth )..in France ( victor Hugo ) and in Germany ( Goethe , Hegel ).  Main thematic tread is that reason ( the catchphrase of literature in that century) cannot stand wholly for and explain everything. As pure logic is insufficient to answer all questions  In reaction to the Enlightenment, and view things with different spin than Enlightenment thinkers Ex. The Enlightenment thinkers considered the middle ages as dark ages a period of ignorance and irrationality. But The Romantics idealized the middle ages as a time of spiritual depth and adventure.  A representative of British Romantic Gothic novel writers is Mary Shelley who published Frankenstein.  Revolutionary energy: The early Romantic period coincides with age of Revolutions, the American and the French revolutions , the transformation of the industrial Revolution. Revolutionary energy was the core of Romanticism which transform not only the theory and practice of poetry and art but also the way they perceive the world.  In 1798 the publication of Lyrical Ballads By William wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Introducing their ideas on the origins of poetry and its role in the world  Wordsworth hints on three major premises : 1. Poetry is the language of the common man accessible to all individuals regardless of class , position or even time …. He implies that any person with exposure to nature can learn the secrets of the world. 2. Poetry should be understandable to anybody living in the world , refusing the use of lofty poetic diction as he thinks is not related to the language of real life regards poetry as acting like nature which touches all living things inspiring and delighting them. 3. Makes the points that "poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings :it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquility " The process of writing poetry is based on two main factors. The first one is the existence of an experience that has the ability to trigger a transcendent moment (an instance of the sublime) And when this emotions is recollected in tranquility that the poet can assemble words to do the instance justice only when he have a personal distance from the experience. Wordsworth seeks to imitate nature and the effects of nature on the individuals , while Coleridge imitation teaches us something about human nature and behavior. Coleridge didn't agree that poetry is the language of the common man He though that lowering diction and content simply made it so that the poet had a smaller vocabulary of both words and concepts to draw from. Focusing mainly on imagination as the key to poetry divided imagination into main components: 1. The primary imagination: A spontaneous creation of new ideas and they are expressed perfectly 2. The secondary imagination: Mitigated by the conscious act of imagination , it's hinted not only by imperfect creation but also by imperfect expression. Fancy: The lowest form of imagination because it has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites..There is no creation involved. Just a recognition of existing ideas. The fanciful poet : poet who reorders concepts, putting them in a new and , possibly , fresh relationship to each other. They both seek the sublime After the discovery of longinus ideas about the sublime which describe how rhetorical structure is used to gain the same feeling of transcendence as nature promotes. ?.. and because of their weighty concepts , their poetry is still read and analyzed.