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Transcript of O happy living things! No tongue Their beauty might declare’ A spring of love gushed from my heart...
O happy living things! No tongue
Their beauty might declare’
A spring of love gushed from my heart
And I blessed them unaware...
The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Key elements of Romanticism...
•Nostalgia
•Innocence
•Nature
•Emotion/Passion
•Intuition
•Imagination
•Religion/Faith
•Love
•Chivalry
Literature•Key Romantic Authors/Works
•Victor Hugo (FR) - Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miz
•Wordsworth, Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads
•Grimm’s Fairy Tales - nationalistic works that preserve german culture
•Goethe - Faust, Sorrows of the Young Werther
Art - 18th/19th Cent.•Emphasis on
expression, nature, etc.
•Key theme is sublime destructive force of nature
•Document events of the age
•Casper David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)
•Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People
•Theodore Gericault: Raft of the Medusa