Romanticism and the Romantics

World Cultures

Question 1

It favors imagination over reason, intuition over facts

Question 2

Romantics focused on subjective experience.

Question 3/4

Nature over civilization.

Question 4

Romanticism has an intense interest in, and reverence for, nature.

Question 5

Romanticism changed the way writers thought, how they wrote, and how the readers thought. It changed the style of writing to thinking more along the lines of nature, and its influences on the human mind. Romanticism changed the way that painters painted their works of art to center on nature and landscapes. Romantics moved from reason to romance.

Question 6

Romanticism has very little to do with things we think as “romantic,“ although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art.

Question 7

It is one of the curiosities of literary history that the strongholds of the Romantic Movement were England and Germany, not the countries of the romance languages themselves.

Question 8

The Romantic period for literature began in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge and of the composition of the Hymns to the Night by Novalis, and ended in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe.

Question 9

and the great period of influence for Rousseau’s writings throughout Europe.

Question 10

The early Romantic period matches up with what is called the “age of revolutions“— including, of course, the American (1776) and the French (1789) revolutions— an age of upheavals in political, economic, and social traditions, the age which witnessed the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolutions.

Question 11

The imagination was elevated to the supreme faculty of the mind.

Question 12

The Romantics said that the imagination was our ultimate “shaping“ or creative power.

Question 13

Imagination, they said, was equivalent to the creative powers of nature or even God.

Question 14

Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art. It is also the scene that helps humans comprose reality.

Question 15

For example, the tree may symbolize peace, the breeze might symbolize a divine wind, or the rain might symbolize sadness.

Question 16

It was often presented as a work of art, constructed by a divine imagination, in symbolic language.

Question 16uh

Nature was considered a healing power, a source of subject and image, and a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization, including artificial language.

Question 17

Romanticism displaced the rationalist view of the universe as a machine with the “organic” image of a living tree or mankind itself.

Question 18

This was to be expected in a period of revolution. Romantics reacted strongly to oppression and injustice in the world and sought to interpret them through emotion rather than reason.

Question 19

“Nothing succeeds like excess,” wrote Oscar Wilde, who, as a partial inheritor of Romantic tendencies, seemed to enjoy shocking the bourgeois, both in his literacy and life styles.

Question 20

WE ARE SEVEN

1,2,&3

Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone at sea. Two of us in the church-yard lie,

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Their graves are green, they may be seen,

And sing a song to them