Post by Daniel on Dec 5, 2009 6:50:42 GMT -5
Romanticism: Quotes
Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.“
William Wordsworth:"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"
The Sublime
Common Definition: Great, Magnificent, Fantastic, Exalted, High.
Context-specific meaning:The highest possible feeling. Something above Beauty and greatness.
Gothic Sublime:The most powerful feeling is pain or fear.Darkness and scary sights are the most sublime things
Romantic Sublime: The most powerful and awe inspiring things are those of nature: high mountains, perfect scenery, picturesque countryside
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, to John and Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth, the second of their five children. His father was law agent and rent collector for Lord Lonsdale, and the family was fairly well off.
His first major success was the publication of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection of poems published with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Though he was initially a liberal in his youth and supported the French Revolution (1789-1799), he became more conservative as he grew older.
When Robert Southey died in 1843, Wordsworth was named Poet Laureate. He died in 1850
Read ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ (P.19)
Percy Byshe Shelley
A son of Sir Timothy Shelley, a Whig Member of Parliament, and his wife, a Sussex landowner, Shelley was born at Field Place in Horsham, England, 1792
Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence in generations to come. Some of his works were published, but they were often suppressed upon publication.
He was a radical throughout his life, and supported revolution and the rights of the Irish.
On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner, Don Juan. Shelley claimed to have met his Doppelgänger, foreboding his own death
Read ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (P.54) and ‘The Cloud’ (P.60) and Men of England (p.53)
John Keats
John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. He was the oldest of their four surviving children
Like Shelley, he was not appreciated until after his death.
Was sick for the majority of his life.
During 1820 Keats began showing increasingly serious signs of tuberculosis and suffered two lung haemorrhages in the first few days of February
John Keats died on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was to be buried under a tombstone reading: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.
Read ‘To Autumn’(p.81)
The Romantic Hero
Aside from writing about nature and revolutionary politics, the Romantic period was also famous for promoting the Romantic Hero, typified by Lord Byron.
The Romantic Hero was a solitary lover of women, someone who was pensive, thoughtful and spent a lot of time in nature. He would be in love, but his lover would either die or become inaccessible to him.
Lord Byron was famous for being the most extravagant and foppish of the Romantic poets. Though he had poor health throughout his life, he was known for his overt sexuality and his womanising. He was from a rich family and spent a lot of money on entertainment.
Read When We Two Parted (p.25) by Byron and She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (p.17) by Wordworth
Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.“
William Wordsworth:"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"
The Sublime
Common Definition: Great, Magnificent, Fantastic, Exalted, High.
Context-specific meaning:The highest possible feeling. Something above Beauty and greatness.
Gothic Sublime:The most powerful feeling is pain or fear.Darkness and scary sights are the most sublime things
Romantic Sublime: The most powerful and awe inspiring things are those of nature: high mountains, perfect scenery, picturesque countryside
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, to John and Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth, the second of their five children. His father was law agent and rent collector for Lord Lonsdale, and the family was fairly well off.
His first major success was the publication of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection of poems published with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Though he was initially a liberal in his youth and supported the French Revolution (1789-1799), he became more conservative as he grew older.
When Robert Southey died in 1843, Wordsworth was named Poet Laureate. He died in 1850
Read ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ (P.19)
Percy Byshe Shelley
A son of Sir Timothy Shelley, a Whig Member of Parliament, and his wife, a Sussex landowner, Shelley was born at Field Place in Horsham, England, 1792
Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence in generations to come. Some of his works were published, but they were often suppressed upon publication.
He was a radical throughout his life, and supported revolution and the rights of the Irish.
On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner, Don Juan. Shelley claimed to have met his Doppelgänger, foreboding his own death
Read ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (P.54) and ‘The Cloud’ (P.60) and Men of England (p.53)
John Keats
John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. He was the oldest of their four surviving children
Like Shelley, he was not appreciated until after his death.
Was sick for the majority of his life.
During 1820 Keats began showing increasingly serious signs of tuberculosis and suffered two lung haemorrhages in the first few days of February
John Keats died on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was to be buried under a tombstone reading: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.
Read ‘To Autumn’(p.81)
The Romantic Hero
Aside from writing about nature and revolutionary politics, the Romantic period was also famous for promoting the Romantic Hero, typified by Lord Byron.
The Romantic Hero was a solitary lover of women, someone who was pensive, thoughtful and spent a lot of time in nature. He would be in love, but his lover would either die or become inaccessible to him.
Lord Byron was famous for being the most extravagant and foppish of the Romantic poets. Though he had poor health throughout his life, he was known for his overt sexuality and his womanising. He was from a rich family and spent a lot of money on entertainment.
Read When We Two Parted (p.25) by Byron and She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (p.17) by Wordworth