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- 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.
Want to learn about how it all started? Shoot, go to Germany: Land of tremendous sausage and home of the Romantic tradition.
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
QUESTION: Romanticism started in Germany. How did it get over to England?
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
- 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:
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.
"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)
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.
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
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
Why should I care? They're not happening anymore, and today's culture looks nothing like Romanticism.
Shout-out to Casey.