HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Countermovement, Antihero, Elegy
15 Dec 2020
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Literature of the romantic period (c. 1789-1830) Different possible start dates: problems of periodization: 1776 american independence modern system of democracy, human rights, , 1789 french revolution modern system of democracy, human rights, , 1798 publication of lyrical ballads. Different possible end dates: 1832 reform act reformed parliaments and increased political participation, 1837 coronation of queen victoria. Influenced by medieval romances turned away from neoclassicism. Now: actual vividly, painted encounters with nature. Interest in feelings and authentic expression of intense emotional states: speaker experiences a state of solitude, celebration of the ordinary, celebration pf nature, deliberate simplicity of diction and style, prophetic (= vatic ) visions. Interest in the power and dangers of the imagination. Generation: william wordsworth, samuel taylor coleridge, william blake: 2. Generation: george gordon, lord byron; percy bysshe shelley; john keats. Generation and rewriting their poetic principles took their craft of writing apart.
