V6 P1 W2 introduction Romanticism

Basic rules

• We do our work when we should
• We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
• Our phone is in our "zakkie" on the corner of our table
• We don't eat, drink or chew gum in class

learning goals

I know the basic features of the Romantic period

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.

Neoclassical or Romanticism?

Which examples are from which era?

National Gallery - London

Royal Pavilion - Brighton

Garden at Versailles

Garden at Stourhead

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?

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