Romantic Period

Romantic Period
• It began roughly around
the time of the start of the
French Revolution in 1789,
and it finished around
1850.
Romantic Period
• It is an artistic movement in
Europe and the US in the
1800s that prized feelings
over intellectual thoughts.
• It came after the age of
enlightenment. (1700s)
Romantic Period
• It is the return to Nature or
deification of nature.
-The romanticists believed that
the materialism and mechanism
of society and its institutions had
cause man to become blind to the
nature around and within him.
Romantic Period
• It refers to the birth of new
set of ideas. It is about a
mind set and a way of
feeling.
 Historical
Background
1. European War
•England & France
engaged in war at the
th
of 18 century. The
enmity continued till
1815.
2. Industrial revolution
• There were many harmful effects of
the industrial revolution.
-Pollution
-Dehumanization of labours
-Materialization
-Child labour
• Writers started pointing out
the importance of nature,
beauty & imagination.
• It was important for human
beings to connect to nature
to keep their humanity intact.
3. Social conditions
• The end of the long war between
England & France resulted in low
wages, heavy taxation &
unemployment.
Marie Antoinette
 Major Writers
of the Romantic
Period
 POETS
1.William Wordsworth
2.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.Lord Byron
4.Percy Bysshe Shelley
5.John Keats
 1. William He was one
Wordsworth
of the founders
of English
Romanticism
and one of its
most central
figures and
important
intellects.
He is remembered as a poet
of spiritual and
epistemological speculation,
a poet concerned with the
human relationship to nature
and a fierce advocate of
using the vocabulary and
speech patterns of common
people in poetry.
Wordsworth along with
Coleridge produced
Lyrical Ballads; a
collection of poems in
1798 which started the
Romantic Age.
Wordsworth’s “Tintern
Abbey” was a part of
Lyrical Ballads.
Other notable poem of
Wordsworth:
• The Prelude
• The Solitary Reaper
• Daffodils
• Ode on the Intimations of
immortality
• Ode to Duty
• Collection of Lucy poems
2. Samuel Taylor He is the premier
Coleridge poet-critic of
modern English
tradition,
distinguished for
the scope and
influence of his
thinking about
literature as much
as for his
innovative verse.
Most notable poem of
Coleridge in the lyrical
ballads is “Rime of the
Ancient Mariner”.
Other notable poem of
Coleridge:
• Kubla Khan
• Christable
• Frost at Midnight
• Dejection: An Ode
3. Lord Byron The most
flamboyant and
notorious of the
major English
Romantic poets,
George Gordon,
Lord Byron, was
likewise the most
fashionable poet
of the early 1800s.
 He created an
immensely popular
Romantic hero-defiant,
melancholy, haunted by
secret guilt-for which, to
many, he seemed the
model.
 He created an
immensely popular
Romantic hero-defiant,
melancholy, haunted by
secret guilt - for which, to
many, he seemed the
model.
Other notable poem of
Byron:
• Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
• Beppo
• The Vision of Judgement
• Don Juan
4. Percy Bysshe He is one of the epic
Shelley poets of the 19th
century and is best
known for his classic
anthology verse
works such as Ode
to the West
Wind and The
Masque of Anarchy.
 He is also well
known for his long-form
poetry, including Queen
Mab and Alastor.
Other notable poem of
Shelley:
• Alastor
• Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty
• Revolt of Islam
• Ode to the West Wind
• To a skylark
• Prometheus Unbound
5. John Keats He had perhaps
the most
remarkable career
of any English
poet. He
published only
fifty-four poems, in
three slim
volumes and a
few magazines.
Other notable poem of
Keats:
• Edymion
• Hyperion
• Ode to Autumn
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode to a Nightingle
• The Eve of Saint Agnes
 NOVELIST:
1.Jane Austen
2.Sir Walter Scott
3.Mary Shelley
4.Horace Walpole
5.Victor Hugo
1. Jane Austen While not widely
known in her own
time, Jane Austen's
comic novels of love
among the landed
gentry gained
popularity after
1869, and her
reputation
skyrocketed in the
20th century.
 Her novels,
including Pride and
Prejudice and Sense and
Sensibility, are considered
literary classics, bridging
the gap between romance
and realism.
Other notable novels of
Austen:
• Sense & Sensibility
• Pride & Prejudice
• Emma
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
2. Sir Walter Scott Born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, influential
novelist, poet, and
historian, and
biographer Sir
Walter Scott studied
law as an apprentice
to his father before
his writing career
flourished.
Scott became an instant best
seller with historical narrative
poems like The Lay of the
Last Minstrel (1805), followed
by The Lady of the
Lake (1810), Rokeby (1813),
and The Lord of the
Isles (1815).
He also wrote immensely
successful historical
novels. Waverley, which he
published anonymously in
1814, is now considered the
first historical novel in
Western literature.
3. Mary Wollstonecraft She is an
English Romantic
Shelley
novelist best known
as the author
of Frankenstein; a
horror science
fiction.
4. Horace Walpole English
writer, connoisseur,
and collector known
for his novel ”The
Castle of
Otranto” (1764), the
first Gothic novel in
the English
language and one of
the earliest
literary horror
stories.
Assignment/Mini task

Directions:
Do a research about the life and
works of VICTOR HUGO. In an LAS,
write a three-paragraph narration of
his biography; his social background
and life as an artist.
Les Miserables

(by Victor Hugo)

 The End
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