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The First Generation

2* GradeHigh School

Olga TagaPamplona, 2010


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Romanticismnew movement in literature at the end of

the 18th century and beginning of the 19th.English romanticism 1790 - 1830

Romantic Poets:William Blake

William WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord ByronPercy B. ShelleyJohn Keats


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Aspects of the romantic

movement: The Romantic age is a term used to describe life

and literature in England in the 18th. And early

19th. Century.

The Romantic writers placed the individual, ratherthan society at the center of their vision. They

tended to be optimists who believed in thepossibility of progress and improvement.


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The Romantic writers generally saw humanity as naturally good,

but corruption and goverment.

The French Revolution gave life and breath to the dreams ofsome Romantic writers for a society in which there would beliberty and equality for all.

The most significant aspects of 19th. Century English life was theslow but steady application of the principales of democracy.

The Romantic movement flourished in the early 19th. Century inthe poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and

Keats.

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Common

features of the romantic poets: The romantics cultivated imaginative freedom;

Used a variety of poetic forms;

Tended to express the feelings of man in solitude asopposed to those of man in society;

All the poets, except Blake, described the naturalenvironment;

They tended to use language with more freedom andinformality than the 18th century poets;


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They were profoundly affected by the great historical

fact of the French Revolution; The romantic poets were deeply interested both in life

an art;

The most interesting poems were about writingpoetry;

Some of the features of the romantic poetry:

a. loose forms

b. introspectionc. reliance on the imagination


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Other features:

d. the link between:nature God, human being nature,

e. the poet is a genius , a prophet

f. it shows the interest in the folklore, history

g. it seems an imitation of popular ballads.

ROMANTIC THEMES: NATURE

LOVE

HISTORY

LITERARY FORMS:

Lyric, ballad, sonnet, historical novel


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ROMANTIC ATTITUDES:

Sensibility

Melancholy Individualism

Rebelliousness

THE FIRST GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS:

W. BLAKE (1757 1827)

W.WORDSWORTH (1770 - 1850) S.T. COLERIDGE (1772 - 1834)


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THE FIRST GENERATION OF ROMANTIC POETS:

General Characteristics: The first romantic poets are disillusioned men, after

the French Revolution

They take refuge in: nature, past (ballads), foreign(exotic)

The regular meter is abolished

Rhyme is considered something from the past

There is a search for natural linguistic expression


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Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge17721834POETS REGION

EnglandSCHOOL / PERIOD RomanticSubjectsArchitecture & Design,Landscapes & Pastorals, Seas,Rivers, & Streams, Nature,Arts &

Sciences, Trees & FlowersPoetic Terms Imagery, Pastoral
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PoetWilliam Blake17571827POETS REGION EnglandSCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic

Subjects Christianity, Philosophy,Relationships,Arts & Sciences,

Youth, Living, Pets, ReligionHolidays Easter

Poetic Terms Consonance,Refrain, Couplet
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PoetWilliamWordsworth1770

1850POETS REGIONEngland

SCHOOL / PERIODRomantic
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POETLord Byron (George

Gordon)17881824 POETS REGIONEngland

SCHOOL / PERIODRomantic SUBJECTSTheater &

Dance,Arts &Sciences, Humor & Satire

POETIC

TERMSEpistle, Allusion, Couplet Poems: Childe Harold, Don

Juan
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POETPercy ByssheShelley17921822

POETS REGIONEngland

SCHOOL /PERIODRomantic

SUBJECTSPhilosophy,Arts & Sciences

POETIC TERMSRhymedStanza

Poems: Queen Mab.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1782-1822)
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John Keats (1795-1821) POETS REGIONEngland

SCHOOL /PERIODRomantic

SUBJECTSTrees &Flowers, Fall, Eating &Drinking, Nature,Activities, Landscapes &

Pastorals,Animals HOLIDAYSThanksgiving

POETIC TERMSRhymedStanza, Ode

Poems: Endymion.
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