Romanticism
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The Romantic Movement is traditionally starting roughly around 1780. However, the
Roman-tic age more exactly represents between the year 1798 span. The romantic period (1798-
1832) in English literature is taken to begin with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s
Lyrical Ballads and ended with the death of the novelist, Sir Walter Scott. The other main writers
of this era were either not productive or dead. According to the historical literature review,
English Romanticism started from earliest poems of Blake through the start of 1830s, but these
dates are arbitrary. Another historical review about period of Romanticism is that it extends from
American Rebellion to the First Reform Bill 1832. However, Romanticism altered time in
America, Britain, Italy, France and Germany.
The term “Romantic” comes from old French “Romans” which indicated a vernacular
language derived from Latin and gives expression “romance language”. No writer thought
himself as a “Romantic” in Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s time, they were distributed as
independent or grouped writers into a number of separate schools. The English romantic poets
Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge Keats, Shelly and Byron were not themselves romantic but they
are very different in their practice and theory. The Romanticism had developed freedom aesthetic
from formal rules of neo-classicism/Enlightenment age.
Romantics
At the end of eighteenth century and start of nineteenth century, three generation of romantic
poets are distinguished. In the first group (The Lake Poets) include the poets of the older
generation: William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and
Robert Southey (1774-1843), who, in 1789, the year of the French Revolution, were young and
affected by the influence of the French revolutionary ideals of democracy. The period of the
French terror and the rise of Napoleon definitely disappointed them, and therefore retreated into
reaction.
The second group (The Scott) of Romantic poets includes Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Thomas
Campbell (1774-1844) and Thomas Moore (1779-1852). The Younger group of Romantic age
comprises Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), John
Keats (1795-1821), who were less lucky than the older poets.
An assignment submitted to
University Name
in partial fulfillment of the
Requirement for course
"History of English Literature"
By
Student name
Session
Registration/roll #
To
Teacher Name
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25-06-2021
Department ………..
, Romanticism
The Romantic Movement is traditionally starting roughly around 1780. However, the
Roman-tic age more exactly represents between the year 1798 span. The romantic period (1798-
1832) in English literature is taken to begin with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s
Lyrical Ballads and ended with the death of the novelist, Sir Walter Scott. The other main writers
of this era were either not productive or dead. According to the historical literature review,
English Romanticism started from earliest poems of Blake through the start of 1830s, but these
dates are arbitrary. Another historical review about period of Romanticism is that it extends from
American Rebellion to the First Reform Bill 1832. However, Romanticism altered time in
America, Britain, Italy, France and Germany.
The term “Romantic” comes from old French “Romans” which indicated a vernacular
language derived from Latin and gives expression “romance language”. No writer thought
himself as a “Romantic” in Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s time, they were distributed as
independent or grouped writers into a number of separate schools. The English romantic poets
Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge Keats, Shelly and Byron were not themselves romantic but they
are very different in their practice and theory. The Romanticism had developed freedom aesthetic
from formal rules of neo-classicism/Enlightenment age.
Romantics
At the end of eighteenth century and start of nineteenth century, three generation of romantic
poets are distinguished. In the first group (The Lake Poets) include the poets of the older
generation: William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and
Robert Southey (1774-1843), who, in 1789, the year of the French Revolution, were young and
affected by the influence of the French revolutionary ideals of democracy. The period of the
French terror and the rise of Napoleon definitely disappointed them, and therefore retreated into
reaction.
The second group (The Scott) of Romantic poets includes Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Thomas
Campbell (1774-1844) and Thomas Moore (1779-1852). The Younger group of Romantic age
comprises Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), John
Keats (1795-1821), who were less lucky than the older poets.
