“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more
charming than nature, and describe a happiness that
humans never taste…” Oliver Goldsmith
PowerPoint devised by:
Jesse Batterham, Jenna Tingleff, and David Edwards
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Emerged in 1700’s.
French Revolution
American Romanticism – Early 1800’s
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Incorruptible – Ideals that endure!
New Rebellion.
 “Freeeeeeeedom!” –Mel Gibson
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Nature
Senses
Feelings
Subjective Poetry
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Primitivism
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Personal; product of civilization.
The cavemen had it right!
The Supernatural
Rebellion
Transience
ENLIGHTENMENT
EARLY 1600’S TO LATER
1700’S
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Static view.
There is conservatism.
There is uniformity.
There is rationality.
Physics and math.
How life is…
ROMANTICISM
LATER 1700’S TO EARLY
1800’S
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Dynamic view.
There is revolution.
There is diversity.
There are feelings.
Genetics and biology.
How life should be…
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Nature
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The Raft of the Medusa
-Theodore Géricault
Vivid colors and passionate brushstrokes.
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War
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The Third of May 1808
– Francisco de Goya
Messy strokes and dramatic light.
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The Specifics:
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The role of war.
The role of women.
The Gothic novel.
 Wild landscapes.
 Edgar Allan Poe.
Lyrical Poetry
 Feelings.
 What did Romantics seek?
View of society?
 Urbanization is a plague.
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The Big Three
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William Wordsworth (“The Prelude”)
 British Poet.
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John Keats (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”)
 Another British Poet.
 Sensual Imagery.
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Lord Byron (“Don Juan”)
 British Poet. Yes. Another one.
 Satirical, epically ironic, and…unfinished.
Ode On A
Grecian Urn
Stanza 3
• Ideals of Romanticism:
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Nature
• Love
• Beauty
• Immortality
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Time without power.
• Air of tragedy.
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“Ah, happy, happy boughs!
That cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring
adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! More happy, happy
love!
For ever warm, and still to be enjoy’d,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful
And cloy’d,
A burning forehead, and a parching
tongue.”
-John Keats
“A Brief Guide to Romanticism”
www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMI
D/5670. 1997-2010. Academy of
American Poets. November 2010.
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“The Romantic Movement”
http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTe
xtHistories.asp?historyid=aa73.
Gascoigne, Bamber. HistoryWorld.
From 2001, ongoing. November 2010.
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Emily Hutchinson. Prentice Hall
Literature. Los Angeles Unified School
District. 2000.
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Works Cited