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English Romanticism
1798-1832Slide2
English romanticism developed as a reaction to many social influences:
--the unrest of the French Revolution
--the excesses of the Industrial Revolution
--the widespread poverty and oppression of workers.Slide3
A Time of Revolution
Englishmen blamed King George III for the American Revolution and the loss of the American Colonies because of his inflexible and unsympathetic attitude.
Britain and Ireland joined together (UK) hoping to prevent a French invasion of Britain via Ireland, and later Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.Slide4
Industrialization
Romantic writers reacted to the negative effects of industrialization— poverty, appalling working conditions, and oppression of workers—by turning to nature for truth and beauty. The upper and middle class found prosperity while the workers wallowed in degrading poverty.
Nat-Y-
Glo
Ironworks
by George Robertson
Wivenhoe
Park, Essex by John ConstableSlide5
Primary Features of English Romanticism:
Emphasis on the individual (over society)
Rejection of
artificiality in
favor of passion and emotion (emotion over reason)
Love of nature (over industry)Respect for the commonplace (ordinary things)
Freeing of the imagination (freer artistic forms)Slide6
Revolt Against Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism represented order, propriety, traditional rules in literature and in society, and writings about the human being as an integral part of an organized society, rather than as an individual (Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”).
Neoclassicists emulated the rationality of ancient Greek and Roman writers.Slide7
English Romanticists
English romantics revolted against the order and traditionalism of neoclassicism.
English romantics were influenced by revolutionary ideals and agitation for change.
English romantics valued emotion, nature, and the commonplace.
Romantic poets abandoned the measured couplet in favor of lyric poems.Slide8
For more information,
see the online textbook:
Neoclassicism pp. 562-577
Romanticism pp. 752-767