ENGL 3315 Lecture 2: 1-19-2017 Intro to Romantic Movement continued
8 Feb 2017
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Romanticism as a revolution occurring during a time of revolutions. Zeitgeist german, compound noun the first zeit means time and geist means spirit. Myths as origin stories of cultures: the fall from paradise to a fallen world of work and sin. Coleridge argued that the poet"s imagination is a dim analog of god: argued that imagination is the repetition of the finite mind, yahweh not exacty a name but an anagram i am who i am . The romantic rebellion is a rebellion against the school of philosophy that focuses on the empirical, what we would today call data. Romantic thinkers argued that there was more to the human mind and reality. Age of reason or the enlightenment this was the time of rationalist philosophers vs. Alexander pope, samuel smith, jonathan swift were the neo-classical school of poetry, the classical writers being the great writers of greece and rome. Transcendentalists is another word for the romantics.
