ENGLISH 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zong Massacre, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Romantic Poetry
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Prof. langan wants to challenge the idea that poetry is some esoteric, inessential part of life. Romantic poets, writing in that milieu, tried to prove poetry did something besides just convey info. Unnegated/unmediated expression of emotion - classic definition of romantic poetry. Romantic period - problematic to define b/c there"s always a new last romantic poet. Romanticism also difficult to define because it has so many meanings. Aesthetic category ( an evocation of evocation - evokes sentiment, nostalgia) Romanticism = release from the burden of representation. Mirror becomes a lamp lamp: orientation of art towards object world changes to orientation towards perceiving subject (artist) - lamp illumines both interiority and expressivity. How is romanticism even a historical category, like the renaissance, or the. Romanticism develops itself in opposition to neo-classicism (like pope"s couplets) and to realism/modernism; it"s almost never understood as standing on its own.
