The Romantic Movement

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The Romantic Movement

1789 - 1832

WHEN?• Name and underlying philosophy end of C18

• French contribution – social and political. French Revolution 1789

WHY?• Reaction against contrived phraseology of

Augustan Poets.

• Result of social change.

WHAT?

• “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”

• Importance of social change:

new & better ways to live

• Focus on individual

WHAT?

• Greater simplicity of diction

• Sensory impressions

• Childhood recollections

• Poems of meditation and retrospection

WHAT?

•Emotions high

•Intuition

•Wild and picturesque in nature

•Supernatural. Fantasy / mystery

WHO?

• Blake• Shelley• Burns• Coleridge• Pushkin• Brontë Sisters• Keats• Mary Shelley “Frankenstein”• Sir Walter Scott• Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales• Bryon• Wordsworth• French: Lamartine, Baudelairè,

Victor Hugo, George Sand

Wordsworth

Byron

Coleridge

Shelley

Sir Walter Scott

Brontë Sisters

Keats