Presentation Topic : What are the general characteristics of the literature of the romantic age.

Presenter : Radha B. Ghevariya Paper no . : 5 : The Romantic Age Roll no. : 22 Sem : M.A ( Sem :2 ) Year : 2015 Submitted to : Smt . S. B . Gardi Department Of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Introduction

The term ‘Romanticism’ is derived from the word ‘romantic’ which means Attitude , ideas and feeling.

Romantic era or the Romantic period was an artistic , literary and intellectual movement. That refined the way in which human Westurn Civilization thought about themselves and their world.

Romanticism is an important literary movement which began in Westurn Europe during 17th century and went on till the second half of 18th century . Romanticism emerged as a reaction against ‘the age of Enlightment’ . Which emphasized on reason and logic . “ Classic , Romantic and Modern” - Jacques Barzun (1916)

This age was a direct fallout Of ‘French revolution’ and ‘German Influence’ it was a direction against the rigid and relational new-classicism .

“ Responses from repugnance to enthusiastic

approval”

Major characteristics of Romanticism

literature was the first branch of art to be influenced by the waves of Romanticism although the concept remain the same in all the art forms. - An increasing interest in nature . - Prominence of emotion and feeling. - Away from city life and city manners. - more interest in simple and decent.

- Note of feelingful meditation. - Interest in simple and ordinary people and their activist . - Importance of common man’s language . - Conscious related of simple and nature related themes. - A great range of subject and literary output.

characteristics of Romantic age

- love of Nature

- Superna

tural- Value of

Art

- The Role of

Imagination

- Strong sense ,

emotions and Feelings

Love of Nature

-The Romanticism greatly emphasized the importance of nature and the primal feelings of awe , apprehension and horror felt by man on approaching the sublimeness of it .

- Romantics stressed the awe of nature in art and the language and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature. - Nature was not only appreciated for its visual beauty , but also revered for its ability to help the Urban man find his true identity.

Supernatural

- The Romantic were interested in the Supernatural and included it in their works . Gothic emerged as a branch of Romanticism after Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel the castle of otranto. - Supernatural elements can also be seen in , “Kubla Khan” “ The Rime of Ancient Mariner” - Coleridge

“ La Belle Dame sans Merci” - Keats

Role of Imagination

Coleridge

Keats

Coleridge

Primary Imagination Secondary Imagination

Coleridge considers two kinds of Imagination.

- The poet with this imagination see the world around him can perceive the word and was able to change and create a new world.

“ It Dissolves , Diffuses,Dissipates in order to re-creates”

John Keats

The Imagination to Keat’s has Two forms : 1) In the first place the world of his poetry is predominantly artificial and he imagines it rather than reflect from direct experience. 2) In the second place keat’s poetry are a vision of what he would like human life to be like , stimulated by his own experience of pain and misery.

-In fact he is the forerunner of the aesthetic movement and this aspect move him away to the romantic movement. -Romantic thinker the imagination was the ultimate ‘shaping’ or ‘creative power’. - Nature is the symbol of imagination.

Strong Senses , emotions and Feelings

- Romanticism believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction . This is the best summed by wordsworth who stated that,

. “ All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of

powerful Feeling”

- The heart and feelings of a person were more important than the brain and coherent thought. - Romanticism period changed that ideological belief . The new belief during this period in time was that knowledge was no longer gained through logical appeal and careful though , but rather through emotion and core senses.