ARTS1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Evil, Heart, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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20/08/18 intro to romanticism - english literary romanticism. Been called a code word for liberation and freedom . In british literature - romanticism is new, experimental form. First edition of lyrical ballads - publication. Attack on prevailing emphasis of the enlightenment - order, reason, science. By 1832 - youtful rebellion has been played out, dismay about the failures of projects (eg. failure of french rev. to fully live up to goals) Failure to fully realise goals / romantic vision. Losing faith in the future - constant antagonism. Early innocence, later dejected experience - following french rev. Abrams 1953 a work of art is essentially the internal made externa, resulting from. Transformation of the world into an image of the poet"s mind. Correlation between poet"s mind and the mind of god / transcendent perspective. Correlation between the mind and the world. Shift in the way we see the world and our place in it.