Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement of the early 19th century characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom, human imagination, and nature. [1] Romantic writers rebelled against 18th century reason and logic and had an interest in the Middle Ages. [2] For Romantics, imagination was the primary vehicle for artistic creation and allowed one to perceive reality differently than how it truly was. [3] Nature was seen as a product of imagination that could have different meanings, from a healing power to a refuge from civilization.
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement of the early 19th century characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom, human imagination, and nature. [1] Romantic writers rebelled against 18th century reason and logic and had an interest in the Middle Ages. [2] For Romantics, imagination was the primary vehicle for artistic creation and allowed one to perceive reality differently than how it truly was. [3] Nature was seen as a product of imagination that could have different meanings, from a healing power to a refuge from civilization.
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement of the early 19th century characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom, human imagination, and nature. [1] Romantic writers rebelled against 18th century reason and logic and had an interest in the Middle Ages. [2] For Romantics, imagination was the primary vehicle for artistic creation and allowed one to perceive reality differently than how it truly was. [3] Nature was seen as a product of imagination that could have different meanings, from a healing power to a refuge from civilization.
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement of the early 19th century characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom, human imagination, and nature. [1] Romantic writers rebelled against 18th century reason and logic and had an interest in the Middle Ages. [2] For Romantics, imagination was the primary vehicle for artistic creation and allowed one to perceive reality differently than how it truly was. [3] Nature was seen as a product of imagination that could have different meanings, from a healing power to a refuge from civilization.
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ROMANTIC THEORY
Group 6 What is Romanticism? What is Romanticism?
X Romanticism has nothing to do with love. What is Romanticism? Romantic Literary Theory Romanticism 1820-1865 is a European artistic and intellectual movement of the early 19th century, characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints, on human imagination (through symbols), and on nature in a typically idealized form of writing. Romantic literature rebelled against the formalism of 18th century reason. Many Romantic writers had an interest in the culture of the Middle Ages, an age noted for its faith, which stood in contrast to the age of the Enlightenment and pure logic. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH explained his idea on romanticism in his preface to the second edition of the Lyric Ballads that poetry should:
1. Have a subject matter that is ordinary commonplace
2. Use simple language, even aspiring to the language of prose 3. Make use of imagination 4. Convey a primal (simple, uncomplicated) feeling 5. Present similitude is dissimulated (similarities in difference. Core Principle of Romanticism:
1.Imagination Core Principles: Imagination
The imagination in the center of all things Romantic
Core Principles: Imagination
In its broadest sense, imagination is a factor in how we perceive realty as
our minds attempts to process and to understand the sensory data of the world around us. Core Principles: Imagination
As the mind receives stimuli in the form of touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound, imagination is a major part of the mental process that gives those stimuli meaning. Core Principles: Imagination For the Romantics, imagination was also the primary vehicle for creation of art.
Through imagination, the Romantic
writer could wield creative energy that was godlike in its power. Core Principles: Imagination
For the Romantics, the purpose of literature was not to describe the world as it was, but rather as how it could be. Core Principle of Romanticism:
1.Imagination 2.Nature Core Principles: Nature For the Romatics, nature was a product of imagination, distinct from, but related to, the entities that existed In the physical world.
Because it was the product of the
imagination, nature meant different things to different Romantics artists. Core Principles: Nature Nature could be • A subject or an image • A healing power • The dwelling place for the divine • A refuge from the harshness of civilization and the industrialized world Core Principles: Nature
In the 17th and 18th centuries, nature was increasingly seen as something to be bent to man’s will. Core Principles: Nature
For the Romantics, however,
nature was a force that was wild and untamable. Core Principle of Romanticism:
imagination, Romanticism place great importance on intuition, instinct, and emotion. Core Principles: Individual
It is when we are alone that we
can think most deeply and be most sensitive to the world around us. Core Principles: Individual
In its emphasis on solitude, Romantic art is deeply meditative.
Core Principles: Individual
A major moment in literary history came
in 1798 when William Wordsworth described poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings… Recollected in tranquility Core Principles: Individual
Romantic poetry:
A synthesis of exuberant activity
and quite meditation. Core Principles: Individual
Memory is at the center of
this process of individual experience and reflection
Since our perception of the
world is limited and our memory of the past is imperfect, imagination is the tool by which we fill in the gaps. Core Principles: Individual
This emphasis on individual
imagination and experience reversed the ancient idea that art is a mirror to the world.
For the Romantics, art does
not reflect the world outside, it creates a world within. Core Principles: Individual
Consequently, Romantic poetry is often lyric poetry, and we can assume that speaker in a given poem is either the poet himself or someone who represents him. Core Principles: Individual Romanticism rejected the status quo and saw the modern world’s emphasis on rules and order to be personally, politically, and artistically limiting.
Romantic art is an art of defiance that
emphasizes boldness, energy, eccentricity, and experimentation. Core Principles: Individual
“I must create a system, or else be enslaved by another
man’s”
--William Blake, Jerusalem(1803)
Core Principles: Individual
In this way, the Romantic artist
positions himself as heroic outsider, operating independently from the society of which he is part Core Principles: Individual
Because they viewed themselves as
heroic outsiders, Romantic artists identified with those on the margins of society, and their art often reacted to the social injustice and political oppression of their time. Core Principles: Individual
Inspired by the revolutions in America
and France, romantic artist were idealist who saw their work as a vehicle democratic change. Thankyou!
