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    The Romantic movement developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and classicism. It emphasized emotion, nature, imagination, the supernatural, the primitive, and the simple life. Key influences were Rousseau's philosophy, the German Sturm und Drang movement, and the democratic ideals of the American and French revolutions. In England, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are considered the founders with their 1798 publication Lyrical Ballads, which emphasized emotion and the natural world over reason. Romantic poets found inspiration in nature and childhood innocence, saw the poet as a prophet with a mission to reveal truth, and valued imagination above all. The movement

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    The Romantic movement developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and classicism. It emphasized emotion, nature, imagination, the supernatural, the primitive, and the simple life. Key influences were Rousseau's philosophy, the German Sturm und Drang movement, and the democratic ideals of the American and French revolutions. In England, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are considered the founders with their 1798 publication Lyrical Ballads, which emphasized emotion and the natural world over reason. Romantic poets found inspiration in nature and childhood innocence, saw the poet as a prophet with a mission to reveal truth, and valued imagination above all. The movement

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    The Romantic movement developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and classicism. It emphasized emotion, nature, imagination, the supernatural, the primitive, and the simple life. Key influences were Rousseau's philosophy, the German Sturm und Drang movement, and the democratic ideals of the American and French revolutions. In England, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are considered the founders with their 1798 publication Lyrical Ballads, which emphasized emotion and the natural world over reason. Romantic poets found inspiration in nature and childhood innocence, saw the poet as a prophet with a mission to reveal truth, and valued imagination above all. The movement

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    ENGLISH ROMANTICISM

    The Romantic movement developed in western Europe and it involved not only literature but also
    philosophy, science, religion and art. The background of the Romantic movement consisted of
    some factors:1)The sympathy aroused in many British writers by the democratic ideals coming
    from America and France; 2) the philosophical thought of Rousseau, with his ‘concern with nature
    and man’s emotional power’;3) the German literary movement called ‘Sturm und Drang’, which
    emphasized the value of the individual and opposed the rationalism of the Classical Age.  In
    contrast with the cold rationalism of the previous age, Romantic poets valued human feelings and
    emotions more highly than reason and made them the subject matter of their works. In
    England the publication of the “Lyrical Ballads” by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 is considered
    the beginning of a literary revolution. In fact the preface to “Lyrical Ballads” sets down the
    guidelines of this new form of poetry. NATURE was one of the main sources of inspiration of poets:
    they turned to Nature because they didn't feel at ease in the society of their time. They revaluated
    its beauty in contrast to the ugliness of the town and enjoyed the loneliness of the countryside, far
    from urban life. Nature filled them with pleasure and appeared to them in close relation with
    human soul. Much of Romantic poetry was ‘Nature poetry’ and it expressed a new sense of
    intimate communion between man and nature.CHILDHOOD was seen as an age of innocence
    and purity, in contrast with the corruption brought about by civilization. So it was associated with a
    set of positive meanings, such as freedom, creativity, emotion, spontaneity .IMAGINATION was
    the key-word of Romantic poetry, considered the highest gift of the poet, who was able to modify
    or re-create the world around him. Even if every poet gave it a different definition, for all of them it
    was the power to see beyond appearance into the real nature of things. For Wordsworth it was the
    power that transformed the incidents of everyday life into extraordinary events. For Keats it was
    the capacity to perceive the beauty and the harmony of nature through the senses or in the work of
    classical art ("Ode on a Grecian Urn"). For Shelley it was the capacity to capture and record in
    poetry the most beautiful and the best moments in life. THE POET presented himself as a link
    between the ordinary man and the divine. The poet was seen as a ‘prophet’, free from external
    rules, whose mission was to reveal truth to man.In his work the poet expressed his passions and
    rebellions and often his opposition to social codes.Important influences came from the popular
    tradition of folksongs and ballads and from the Middle Ages. Critics normally divide the Romantic
    poets into two generations :

    THE FIRST GENERATION - Wordsworth and Coleridge, called “Lake Poets” because they lived
    in the English Lake District, emphasized the importance of the self and its relationship with Nature.
    THE SECOND GENERATION– (Byron, Shelley, Keats)All of them left England, visited Italy and
    died very young. The relationship between LIFE and ART was fundamental for their
    poetryWhile Byron and Shelley distinguished themselves for their rebellious spirit and
    passionate defence of freedom, Keats was mainly concerned with the cult of beauty.
    From the literary point of view, there are many features in common between the first and the
    second generation: the concept of the role of the poet, the emphasis on the power of
    the imagination, individualism, the aspiration to the Infinite or the Absolute.
    But with the second generation there was a return to more complex forms of versification, the
    language became richer, and many poems showed a new interest in the world of ancient Greece.

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