Romanticism

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Romanticism

Not romantic...

What was the ideal hero like in a classical piece of literature?

Relate the two pictures which you have just seen to each other.

Personal expression

From enlightenment to romanticism: The dominant mode of expression changed. Enlightenment was considered too objective and too reasonable. There was no room for personal expression.

Lyrical ballads by William Wordsworth en Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.

Belief in the individual and the common man

The romantics are based in passion, not in reason. They look at the world with more than reasonable optimism.

Love of nature

The romantic hero

Name at least two examples of romantic heroes.

Background information

Do you want to know more about romanticism? Check out the BBC documentary on romanticism and the BBC film on the lives of two famous romantic poets.