Romanticism & Nature
Today's Authors
- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Anna Seward (1747-1809)
- Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
"Stormy Coast Scene After a Shipwreck"
Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863)
"Peele Castle in a Storm" (1805)
Sir George Beaumont
Romantic Period
(1798-1870 or 1820-1865)
"Wanderer in the Storm" (1835)
Carl Julius von Leypold (German, 1805–1874)
- individual > society
- nature > city
- freedom/spontaneity > conventions/rules
- feeling/emotion > reason/logic
- humanity in nature > humanity "civilized"
other values:
- medieval or mythologized past
- innocence of children
- "Noble Savage"
Romantic Period
(1798-1870 or 1820-1865)
The Enlightenment
(ca. 1620s-1780s)
- "Age of Reason"
- Political Science: Social Contract
- Natural Philosophy/Science: Scientific Method +