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Romanticism:

- Started in the late 1700s

- Hit its prime between 1800 and 1850*

- Grew out of a desire to beat up everyone who wanted to rationalize nature (thanks, The Enlightenment)

- THEMES: originality, feelings, genius, nature, magic, dreams

Want to learn more about where the Romantic tradition has ended up? Go to a weird little place in Madagascar.

Romantic Literature, Art, and Music:

Time and Place

Want to learn about how it all started? Shoot, go to Germany: Land of tremendous sausage and home of the Romantic tradition.

DO ONE OF THESE THINGS NOW

Romanticism happened in Russia too.

Choose one of these (the Romantics think that individual choice is important!):

- Write a poem about nature

- Write a piece of flash fiction that includes MAGIC

- Write an essay about why Mozart should give it a rest already, man, it's three in $#@%ing morning and I'm tired of hearing your stupid little hands on that keyboard

- Meditate like a Transcendentalist for seven minutes and write a journal entry about your experience

- Grow a neckbeard and go live in the woods

England, 1798 - mid 1800s

QUESTION: Romanticism started in Germany. How did it get over to England?

Who was a part of the English Romantic movement?

1798: Lyrical Ballads

Germany, late 1700s - early 1800s

Yayyy cool. Let's go to America!

The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, with many of the finest poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge, is often held to mark the start of the movement. The majority of the poems were by Wordsworth; carried heavy themes of the poet's feelings toward nature.

In English literature, the group of poets now considered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, followed later by the isolated figure of John Clare.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Lyrical Ballads contained Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which is not to be confused with "The Rime of the Ancient Marinara." I should clean my refrigerator when I get home.

Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder

It is an ancyent Marinere,

And he stoppeth one of three:

"By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye

"Now wherefore stoppest me?

- (German, lit. The Boy's Magic Horn: Old German Songs): collection of German folk poems and songs, published 1805-1808

- edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano and published in Heidelberg

- Selected poems have been set to music by composers such as Weber, Loewe, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, and Webern.

Art.

Music!

The Romantic movement didn't just happen with words; it also happened with art and music. One of the most renowned English Romantic painters was ...

Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Romantic music sounds "old" to us today, but it was revolutionary in its time. Beethoven is so famous because he helped to bring music out of the "classical" period and into the "Romantic" period.

John "Hot Dog" Constable

- Kicking it from 1776 to 1837

- Wrote to John "Whopper Jr." Fisher, his friend, in 1821: "painting is but another word for feeling".

- This is a self portrait of his:

"Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden," oil on canvas, by the English painter John Constable

A flashmob performs the finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Romanticism, like many intellectual movements, is an overarching classification of individual works and artists.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Goethe's 1774 novel _The Sorrows of Young Werther_ had young men throughout Europe emulating its protagonist, a young artist with a very sensitive and passionate temperament" (Wikipedia)

Goethe's 1774 novel _The Sorrows of Young Werther_

AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. They had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community could be formed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works: Self-Reliance, loopy sideburns

Henry David Thoreau

Works: Civil Disobedience, epic neckbeard

Like the Europeans, the American Romantics demonstrated a high level of moral enthusiasm, commitment to individualism and the unfolding of the self, an emphasis on intuitive perception, and the assumption that the natural world was inherently good, while human society was filled with corruption.

Washington Irving

In the United States, romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) and Rip Van Winkle (1819).

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) by John Quidor

NEO-ROMANTIC MOVEMENTS

A huge part of Romanticism is its emphasis on the natural goodness of PEOPLE and of NATURE. Why might music, art, and literature about nature be relevant today? Why should we write about the power of the individual spirit and feelings?

I typed in "Neo-Romanticism" and this guy popped up. "I hope you had the time of your life" too, dude

THESE THINGS ARE OLD.

-$- Fin -$-

Why should I care? They're not happening anymore, and today's culture looks nothing like Romanticism.

Shout-out to Casey.

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