V6 P1 W5 introduction Romanticism

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

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Romanticism

1798 - 1837

neoclassical period - Romantic period - Victorian period

important names in poetry

first generation: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey

second generation: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron

important names in prose

• Jane Austen
• Sir Walter Scott
• Mary Shelley
• Charlotte & Emily Brontë (officially Victorian Period)

British Romanticism in context

In no way can this Romantic revolution be seen as something typically British or as something that is restricted to poetry or to literature. The ideas and ideals of the few Romantic writers we shall discuss, were shared by millions, all over Europe. Artists, intellectuals, young and old, man and woman, the virus spared no one.

neoclassical vs Romanticism

Age of reason: logical, common sense, Greek and Roman culture, optimism, self-confidence

vs

Age of imagination: simplicity, emotion, individual voices, discontent with world around them

National Gallery - London

Royal Pavilion - Brighton

Garden at Versailles

Garden at Stourhead