Romanticism in literature
Romanticism in literatureRomanticism in literature, began around 1750 and lasted
until 1870. Different from the classical ways of Neoclassical
Age(1660-1798), it relied on imagination, idealization of nature
and freedom of thought and
expression.
Two men who influenced the era with their writings were
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, both English
poets of the time. Their edition of “Lyrical Ballads”, stressed the
importance of feeling and imagination. Thus in romantic
Literature the code was imagination over reason, emotion
over logic, and finally intuition over science. All of these new
ways discouraged and didn’t tolerate the more classic way of
literature.
Other significant writers of the Romantic Age are noted still
as shaping an age of open-mindedness and freedom. Lord Byron
was one of these authors, he wrote “Don Juan”. Another is Percy
Bysshe Shelley wrote in terza rima, a three line iambic
pentameter set up of bcb, cdc, ded, and so on. Johan Keats
created his own fairy tale land in the lyrical poem “Ode on a
Grecian Urn”.
Nature and the natural surroundings were important in
romanticism. Taking pleasure in untouched scenery and the
innocence of life was the basis and theme of “The Seasons” by
the Scottish poet James Thomson. This
inspired the nature tradition present in English literature, such as
the works by Wordsworth.
Another aspect in romantic writings, most times connected
with the nature feel, was the look on rural life as being almost a
romantic melancholy. This was sensing that change was looming,
and the way of life they...
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