Romanticism and Romantics. A Brief Introduction

Research Paper (undergraduate) , 2010 , 44 Pages

Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works

The essential elements of the romantic spirit were curiosity and the love – the one of beauty and the more ‘natural’, down-to-earth form – passion and eroticism; and it is only as an illustration of these qualities, that it looked for in the Middle Age, because, in the overcharged atmosphere of the Middle Age, there are unworked sources of romantic effect, of a strange beauty, to be won, by strong imagination, out of things unlikely or remote.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Romanticism
1.1 Defining the Subject
1.2 Romantic Literature and its Characteristics
1.3 Chosen Motifs and Themes in Romantic Literature
1.3.1 Imagination
1.3.2 Nature
1.3.3 Symbolism and Myth
1.3.4 The Everyday and the Exotic
1.4 Summary

Chapter Two The Romantics
2.1. First Generation of Romantic Poets
2.1.1. William Wordsworth
2.1.2. William Blake
2.1.3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2.2. First Generation Romantics’ Notion of Love

Chapter Three Second Generation of Romantic Poets
3.1. Lord George Byron
3.2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
3.3. John Keats
3.4. Second Generation Romantics and the Theme of Love
3.4.1. Erotic Love
3.4.2. Lost Love
3.4.3. In Praise of True Love

Conclusion

Bibliography

• Author: MA Marta Zapała-Kraj (Author)
• Publication Year: 2010
• Pages: 44
• Catalog Number: V288401
• ISBN (eBook): 9783656886808
• ISBN (Book): 9783656886815
• Language: English
• Tags: Romanticism, romantics, love, literature, motifs, themes, imagination, nature, myth, Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Second Generation of Romantics