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Christopher Reginald P. Daylo III.
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The romantic
period
The romantic period (1830 – 1870)
✗ The American Romantic period was a period of fast expansion
and growth in the United States that fueled literary intuition,
imagination, and individualism. When you think of ‘romantic’
stories, you generally picture of a romance novel with a half-
dressed woman with a Fabio-like gentleman hanging all over
her. In the American Romantic period, we’re NOT talking about
that. Romantic literature, like those stories, is both adventurous
and unlikely, but it’s a lot more than just a flimsy love story.

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Romantic Period (1830 – 1870)

✗ “Romanticism” was an artistic, literary, musical, and

intellectual movement that arose in Europe towards the end
of the 18th century and was also known as the “Romantic
Age.”

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Famous Authors
During the
romantic period
William Blake (1757-1827)
✗ Poet, painter, and
printmaker from
England.
✗ A “visionary poet,”
✗ “Romanticism’s
forerunner.”

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Lake Poets
✗ Group of English
poets who lived in
the Lake District of
England and lived
in the Lake District
with Wordsworth,
Coleridge, and
Southey.

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

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 –
1834)
✗ 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.

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George Gordon Byron (1788–
1824)
✗ English poet, politician
who became a
revolutionary in the
Greek War of
Independence.
✗ He is called the Rebel
poet in English
Literature.

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John Keats (1795 – 1821)
✗ 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,

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
✗ One of the major English
Romantic poets.
✗ widely regarded as one of
the greatest lyric and
philosophical poets in the
English language.
✗ Shelley is called the Poet of
Hope and Regeneration.

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Jane Austen(1775–1817)
✗ She used parody,
burlesque, sarcasm, free
indirect speech, and a
touch of reality

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Key
features of
Romantici
sm
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Key Features
✗ High Imagination
✗ Love of nature
✗ Love for freedom and liberty
✗ Love for the past
✗ Simplicity in expression
✗ Spontaneity
✗ Subjectivity
✗ Individualism
✗ Supernaturalism
✗ Revolutionary zeal
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 Neoclassicism vs. Romanticism
Neoclassicism
✗ See and imitation of literary traditions from ancient Greece and Rome.
✗ Beauty in structure and order
✗ Art from applying order to nature
✗ Heroic couplets
✗ Focus on external people and events
✗ Great chain of being
✗ Reason
✗ Reason leads to spiritual revelation
✗ Urban (glorifies civilization and technological progress)
✗ Values wit and sophistication
✗ Human nature needs artificial restraints of society
✗ The head
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 Neoclassicism vs. Romanticism
Romanticism
✗ Use and imitation of literary traditions from the middle ages (including the medieval
romance)
✗ Beauty in organic, natural forms
✗ Art from inspiration
✗ Lyric poetry
✗ Focus on self-expression of the artist
✗ Democracy
✗ Mysticism
✗ Nature leads to spiritual revelation
✗ Rural (sees the evils of civilization and technological progress)
✗ Values primitive, simple people
✗ Restraints of society result in tyranny and oppression
✗ The heart
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Characteristics of Romantic
Literature

✗ Medievalism
✗ Mysticism
✗ Sensibility
✗ Primitivism and individualism

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Forms of
Literature
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 Novel
Lyric Poetry
Romantic Ode
Ballad
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Thanks
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