Romantic Era Flashcards
Romantic/Romance origin
Medieval tales of Knights and their lady in the roman language: Latin
Two revolutions helped the Romantic Era
the French Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
Reason vs Romantics
Reason and Judgement
Imagination and Emotion
Reason vs Romantics
Universal experience
Personal Experience
Reason vs Romantics
Value of society
Value of the individual human being
Reason vs Romantics
Value of rules
Value of freedom
The 5 main romantic themes of English literature (5 i’s)
Intuition Imagination Individualism Inspiration Idealism
“truth of the heart” is more trust worthy than reason
Intuition
To express experience than universal principles
Imagination
humans are the centre and god is in the centre of humans
individualism
Romantic writers find this in nature
Inspiration
Aspire to the minimum
Idealism
Romantic Writers stressed
Emotion
Not romantic love
Freely imaginative fiction
Created the Byronic Hero
Lord Byron
Atheist. Romantic
Percy B. Shelly
Created songs of experience and innocence
William Blake
His work received little attention during his life time
William Blake
Had rumours of incest with his half sister
Lord Byron
Anti hero
Byronic Hero
Was run out of England
Lord Byron
Went to oxford and didn’t work. (Gentleman)
Percy B. Shelly
Married Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)
Percy B. Shelly
Wrote about his wife’s cousin at his funeral
“She walks in Beauty”
Lord Byron
Lord Byron ALSO KNOWN AS
George Gordon Byron
Was against the industrial revolution
William Blake
Drowned in a boat
Percy Shelly
Born with a club foot
Lord Byron
“Bright star, Would I were steadfast as thou art”
John Keats
The tyger and the lamb
William Blake
Had many love affairs and bisexual relationships
Lord Byron
