Week 35 V6A Romantic Period

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

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Goals

1: At the end of this class, you will have practiced with the elements of the Romantics

2: At the end of this class, you will have practiced with doing a job interview in English.

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Romanticism

1798 - 1837

neoclassical period - Romantic period - Victorian period

Romanticism

Romanticism ≠ romanticism

neoclassical vs Romanticism

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

turns into

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

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.

Features

- emotional and imaginative

- intuition

- nature (as mysterious force, god-like or supplement for religion)

- exploration of human nature and native past

- exploration of importance of self-expression

- concern for outcasts of society

- focus on individuals/common man

- use of symbolism

- art as expression

- supernatural elements

Bespreek welke features van de vorige slide in dit gedicht aanwezig zijn. Hoe zijn ze te zien?

Which element(s) of the Romantics reappear(s) in this poem?

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

National Gallery - London

Royal Pavilion - Brighton

Garden at Versailles

Garden at Stourhead

Looking at last year's literature. Is there anyone who could be considered a Romantic hero?

Write down 2 things you have learned today.

Write down 1 question you still have.