Romanticism and Realism

• Prepare the poems and passage by critically reading them and taking notes. You will be turning in your critical reading notes on these three pieces WITH THE TEST. This is the “take home” portion of the test.

• Multiple choice, short answer • One poem you have never seen

• Define Romanticism including dates

1780-1830

• An artistic movement in literature, music, theatre, and art characterized by a break with rational thinking and rules.• Focused on nature, revolution,

inspiration, emotions, ideals.

• What genre was most prominent for Romantic writers?

• Poetry is most prominent

• Novels came later: Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein

• Drama: Goethe’s Faust in Germany and Victor Hugo’s Ruy Blas and Hernani in France

• William Wordsworth

• Focus on Nature• “The World is Too Much with Us”• Response to the Industrial Revolution

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Focus on childhood and the fantastic, on dreams and the grotesque

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• George Gordon, Lord Byron

• The “bad” boy• Reputation was scandalous• The “Byronic” hero: moody, alone, rebel

• Percy Shelley

• Married to Mary Shelly• Political• “Ozymandias”

• John Keats

• Love and the passions• Emotional• “Bright Star”

• Realism

• Artistic movement in literature and art in response to the excessive emotional and idealism of Romanticism

• The here and now• Focus on contemporary social conditions

• What genre is most prominent?

• The novel becomes most prominent:– Charles Dickens– Balzac– Flaubert– Eliot

• Romanticism: emotional, ideal landscapes, dream worlds

• Realism: the lower classes, urban life, contemporary life