Engels Literature Klas 5 The Romantic Period Flashcards
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The romantic period
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1798-1830
- The industrial revolution: long working hours, miserable working conditions and poverty
- Prosperity of a small group- poverty of many
- The ideals of freedom and equality came up, also for poets
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French revolution
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1789
Inspiration to the people who felt that the whole structure of society should be changed
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The lyrical ballads
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- William wordsworth and Samual Taylor Coleridge
- 1798
- a volume of poetry
- the preface was a manifesto of the ideals of the romantics
- a poetry of simplicity, both in form and in contents, guided no longer by reason, but by the imagination
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Poetry
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The most suitable form to express feelings and emotions
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Romantic themes
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- nature
- feelings and emotions
- simple life (country life/folk/children) -> poetic forms often simple too
- the supernatural
- exotic countries and cultures
- the past -> medieval stories became popular
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Escapism
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The romantics/poets escaped dull, everyday life. They often did this by going on a grand tour
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Early romantics
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- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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William blake
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Songs of innocence and experience
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William wordsworth
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- The lucy poems, I wandered lonely as a cloud, the solitary reaper, it is a beautous evening calm and free, lyrical ballads
- in the lyrical ballads he forced people to look at common events and people in a fresh way
- Pantheist: a person who identifies the natural universe with god
- the poet of natural descriptions, stressing the beautiful simplicity of country life and folk
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Samuel taylor coleridge
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- The rime of the ancient mariner: a poem about contect between man and nature, showing the reader to love all creatures god has created.
- lyrical ballads: persons and characters supernatural, appealing to the readers imagination to accept them as real
- interested in the supernatural and the past
- drug addict: world of his own, visions and imaginary beings
- often used the form of medieval ballad (simplicity)
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Late romantics
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1810-1830
- lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
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Lord Byron
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- Don juan
- the byronic hero: a lonely, proud and passionate man who is disappointed in life and lives outside society. Often under the influence of drugs and alcohol
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Ode to the west wind, ozymandias
- pure idealist: better world will come
- interested in politics and rebelled against all laws and regulations
- expelled from oxford
- his poems were weapons in his struggle for social reform and a free society.
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John keats
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- Endymion, la belle dame sans merci
- Mainly interested in the beauty of art itself
- died young
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Grand tour
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Mostly a round trip on which they visited france, italy and greece
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Ekphrasis
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An artist who is inspired by a poem -> paintings of la belle dame sans merci.
Or a poet/writer who is inspired by a work of art.
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Prose in the romantic period
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- mainly interested in poetry because it was the best way to express feelings and emotions
- the rise of the novel went on: the romantics were verh noticable
- interest in mysterie and imagination, horror and ghosts; gothic novel
- dr. Frankenstein by mary shelley
- the mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- interest in the heroic past
- Ivanhoe by sir Walter Scott
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Jane Austen
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- family in Landed gentry: not middle class, but way bellw aristocracy. She writes in detail about this class, sometimes humorously.
- women shouldnt be too intelligent bc they wouldnt get a good man
- children were sent away to learn to speak etc.
- wouldnt place her in Romantic but rather Neoclassical. She did write Romantic, but she was a realist and the first one to display an extremely good insight in her novels.
- jane had the advantage that she had books at home and her brother was willing to publish her books.
- characters clash with commonly accepted ideas
- central theme: tension between the demands of society and the wishes of the individual.
- emma, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.
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Art in the romantic period
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- art had to reflect the personal beliefs of the artists
- individualists: didnt want to adjust to rules of society
- drugs, alcohol and poverty; bohemians
- lyrical instead of didactic
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Science
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Focused on folks, literature and language
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Edgar Allan Poe
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- Annabel Lee
- short stories and poems
- unusual amd eccentric: subconcious world of fantasy and dreams(nightmares)
- dark side of the human mind
- heavy drinker: his death
- new genre: detective novel: auguste dupin
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The gothic novel
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- mystery, doom, decay, ghosts, madness, curses and isolation
- frankenstein and edgar allan poe
- mysteries of Udolpho
