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    Romantic poets revolted against Enlightenment ideas and the Industrial Revolution in three key ways: 1) They emphasized emotion over reason and individual experience over mass movements. 2) They glorified nature as a place of refuge from industry and a source of wonder, in contrast to urbanization. 3) They revived Medievalism and incorporated it into their works to provoke emotion, rather than emphasizing Classical ideals of reason and progress.

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    Romantic poets revolted against Enlightenment ideas and the Industrial Revolution in three key ways: 1) They emphasized emotion over reason and individual experience over mass movements. 2) They glorified nature as a place of refuge from industry and a source of wonder, in contrast to urbanization. 3) They revived Medievalism and incorporated it into their works to provoke emotion, rather than emphasizing Classical ideals of reason and progress.

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    11.

    Social criticism and revolt in Romantic poetry


    Social criticism= refers to a mode of criticism that locates the reasons for malicious
    conditions in a society considered to be in a flawed social structure. It may also refer to people
    adhering to a social critic's aim at practical solutions by way of specific measures either for
    consensual reform or powerful revolution.

    Romantics revolted against the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and rationality and
    instead emphasized emotion. In revolt against the Industrial Revolution and its tendency towards
    mass movements, urbanization, and sameness, Romanticism instead focused on the individual
    and on individual experience. The movement was at its height from 1800 to 1850 and also
    sought to provoke strong emotions such as horror and awe in its works of art. In reaction to the
    industrializing forces in Europe and America, Romanticism also glorified nature and the ability
    of nature to produce emotions and to cultivate a sense of wonder at the sublime. Romantics
    sought refuge in nature as a place of contemplation and wonder away from the mass forces of the
    Industrial Revolution.

    The Romantics also revolted against Classicism, which had been popular during the
    Enlightenment, and revived Medievalism, including the art and narratives of the Medieval Era.
    For example, the illustrations of Blake are influenced by Medievalism, as are the novels of
    Walter Scott such as Ivanhoe (1819), which takes place in the Middle Ages. Medievalism was
    seen as provoking emotion and wonder, as opposed to the Classical emphasis on reason and
    progress.

    According to Simon Bainbridge, Wordsworth and Coleridge translated the Revolution’s


    emphasis on man’s equality into the “language of the common man” and “low” subject matter
    found in Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth’s everyday language and subject choices look like a
    literary revolution that mirrors the historical revolution by breaking down the boundaries that
    separated poetry - with its elevated characters, plots, and diction - from ordinary representation.

    2 Types of revolt

    While first-generation Romantics saw their revolutionary fervor tempered by the gruesome turn
    of the revolution , second-generation Romantics such as Lord Byron and Percy Shelley held to
    the Revolution’s principles in a more idealistic, if somewhat cautious way. Shelley, for instance,
    portrays rebellious events in poems such as “Prometheus Unbound.”

    Example of revolt against Classical values in “EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY”, by William


    Wordsworth:

    “"Where are your books?--that light bequeathed


    To Beings else forlorn and blind!

    Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed

    From dead men to their kind.”

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