Assignment Paper No. 5 " THE ROMENTIC AGE "

Topic:-History of The Romentic Age
Paper No-5 The Romentic literature
Prepared by: KINNARI HALVADIYA
M.A Semester: 2
Batch: 2019-2021
Enrollment No: 2069108420200014
Roll No: 10
Email id: kinuhalvadiya17@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt. S.B Gardi
Department of English, MKBU

Introduction :-

ROMENTIC word has Sprouted in our mind with 2 ideas like...

1) The Loving or potentially loving relationship between man and woman

2) A way of looking at the world that looks beyond ignore the world as it is and perceives of visionary world 

The Period Romanticism (1800-1850).... According to the willion j long is known as the age of romanticism or the age of Wordsworth. Generally, the duration between 1798 to 1827 is known as romantic period at this era. And it's a good considered as one of the most creative video in the history of English literature. A literary movement and profound shift in sensibility, which took place in Britain and throughout Europe from 1770 to 1848. It brought intense change in the production of literature, especially in poetry field as well. 

Intellectually, it marked a violent reaction to the enlightenment.

Politically, it was inspired by the revolution in America and France and popular wars of independence in Poland Spain Greece and elsewhere.

Emotionally, expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience, ( the Egotistical sublime) together with the sense of the infinite and transcendental and Transcendental.

Socially, it championed progressive causes, though when these were frustrated produce of bitter gloomy and the disappearing Outlook. 

       So the romantic age began in 1798, when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor published lyrical ballads and ended in 1832 when walter Scott died. 

The close of 18th century is characterized by a dramatic change in the history of Europe. During the video to new years face thought and literature underwent a remarkable changes. This changes, many faced aid of French Revolution in the industrial and the scientific. 

"THE ROMENTIC REVIVAL" name given durring the literary revolution. 

 The word 'REVIVAL' indicates an improvement in the condition or strength of something. This return romantic quality which were found in the literature of Elizabethan Age. 

✨ DEFINITIONS OF TERM "ROMANTICISM"......

Victor Hugo says:-                          “Romanticism” is the opposite not of classical but of realism in literature.

                                   

George says:-

“Romanticism emphasizes on emotion rather than reason the heart opposed head”.

Rousseau says:-

“Romanticism” is means the return to nature.

Girerson says:- 

  “in Romanticism the spirit count more then form.”

✨ Romanticism saw or shift to from

1) Classical Age :-

   Faith in reason

   Interest in urban Society

   Public,impersonal poetry

   Concern with the scientific and mundan

   

2) Romentic Age

    Faith in the Senses,feelings and imagination

    Interest in the rural and natural

    Subjective poetry

    Interest in the mysterious and infinite

    

✨ Romanticism includes.....

1) subjective and an emphasis on individualism

2) spontaneity

3) freedom from rules devotion is superior to beauty solitary life

4) imagination is superior to reason

5) love and worship of nature

6) fascination with the past, especially the myths and mysticism of the middle ages

✨ Romanticism is characterized by the 5"I"s

1) imagination 

2) idealism

3) intuition

4) inspiration

5) individuality

✨ characteristics of the romentic era

1) common man and childhood over urban sophistication...

Romantics believed in the natural goodness of humans, which is hindered by the urban life of civilization, they believe that the switch in noble childhood is good and the emotions inspired by both beliefs causes the heart to soar.

2) Emotions over reason...

Romantics believed the head knowledge is gained through Mt inclusion. So then deduction, this is the best song up by Wordsworth, who started that " all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ".

3) Nature and artificial

Romantics stress to the major in art and language, and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature romantics rejected the ideas of the industrial revolution.

4) the individual over society...

Romantics, often elevated dog achievements of thought are misunderstood heroic individual outcast.

5) imagination over logic...

romantics legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority.

✨ Common features of romantic poetry

- the romantics cultivated imaginative freedom

- use a variety of poetic forms

- bended to express the feelings of men in solitude, as opposed to those of men in society

- all the poets, except blake described the natural environment

- they tended to use the language with more freedom and in formality than the 18th century poets

- they tended to use language with more freedom and in formality than the 18th century poets

- they were profoundly affected by the great historical fact of the French Revolution

- the romantic poets were deeply interested both in life and art

- the most interesting poems were about writing

✨ ROMENTIC THEMES...

Nature 

love

History

✨ LITERALLY FORMS...

Lyric

Ballad

Sonnet

Historical novel

✨ Romantic attitude

🔥 Sensibility

🔥Melancholy

🔥Individualism

🔥Rebelliousness

✨ The first generation of romantic poets

1) W. Blakr (1757 - 1827) 

2) W.Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

3) S. T Coleridge (1772 - 1834) 

1) WILLIAM BLAKE :- (1757 - 1827)

     Romantic poets of the 18th century Blake is the most independent in the most original in his earliest work, written when he was scarcely more than a child, he seems to go, well is a better song writers for his models, but for the greater part of his life, he was the voice of inspiration alone, following no. Man's league and obeying no voice birthday, to which he heard in his own mystic soul. 

Life:- son of a London tradesman, no educated boy, he began editing yours to copy, prints and do right verses. As a child, he had a vision of God and the angels looking in his window, and as a man, he thought he was a visit from the souls of great dead. 

Works:- THE POLITICAL SKETCHES - 1783

              songs of innocence and of experience

             The marriage of heaven and hell

             The four Zoas

             Jerusalem

            Milton

(2) William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

(3) S.T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. 

Born: 21 October 1772, Ottery Saint Mary, United Kingdom

Died: 25 July 1834, Highgate, London, United Kingdom

Poems: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment, more

Education: Christ's Hospital, University of Cambridge, more

✨ Second generation of romantic poets

1) Byron (1757 - 1827)

2) Keats (1770 - 1850)

3) percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

(1) Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. 

Born: 22 January 1788, London, United Kingdom

Died: 19 April 1824, Missolonghi, Greece

Poems: She Walks in Beauty, Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Darkness, Manfred, more

Plays: Manfred, Sardanapalus, Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice

 (2) Keats

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. 

Born: 31 October 1795, Moorgate, City of London, United Kingdom

Died: 23 February 1821, Rome, Italy

Poems: To Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, La Belle Dame sans Merci, more

Movies: Arterial

(3) Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential. 

Born: 4 August 1792, Horsham, United Kingdom

Died: 8 July 1822, Lerici, Italy

Poems: Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, Adonais, To a Skylark, Love's Philosophy, more

Plays: Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Properties

✨ Historical novels....

🔥 Novus dead reconstruct a past age orphan when two cultures are in conflict.

🔥 Fictional characters interact with historical figures in actual events

🔥 Sir Walter Scott. (1771 1832 ), is considered the father of the historical novel.

The Waverly novels (1814 - 1819) and ivanhoe (1819)

✨ Literary Criticism...

- literary critics became the arbiters of taste

- debate over the artistic value as well as utilitarian value of critical literature

- 1802 Edinburgh 

- 1809 Quarterly

✨ Jane Austen and the novel of manners

🔥 Nervous dominated by the customs manners, conventional behaviour and habits of a particular social class

🔥 Often concerned with guardship and marriage

🔥 But realistic and sometimes satiric

🔥 Focus on domestic society rather than the larger world

✨ Famous quotes by famous one's,..

" beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

                                             - Keats

✨ " Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility "

                                    -William Words worth

✨ To say the word romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts. 

Conclusion : 

So, as we understand about the romentic age is most popular for it's own poets and works. To conclude, the period between 1798-1832 Romanticism brought a drastic change in the production of poetry. It was remarkably a strong movement, “The Return to Nature” the leading Romantic poets

Thus, the Romantic age gave us nature, love sympathy and inspiration the man found his existence hidden in the heart of others. The man went to nature to take rest and sang the love song of nature.

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