Romantics Mindmap
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- Created on: 22-11-20 12:57
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- Romantics
- Important poets include: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Blake
- Key ideas include: power, nature, imagination, revolution, children and the marginalised
- Romanticism = developments in literature, art and music in the late 18th century
- Revolution
- Time of physical confrontation, violent rebellion in parts of Europe and the New World.
- British government feared similar outbreaks - Early Romantic poets supported the French Revolution
- Imagination
- Romantics genuinely thought they were prophet figures who could interpret reality
- Highlighted healing power of imagination, believed it could enable people to transcend their troubles and circumstance
- Creative talent could illuminate a transform the world into a coherent vision, to regenerate mankind spiritually
- Children, nature and the sublime
- Necessary to start again with childlike perspective
- Children innocent and uncorrupted, enjoying a precious affinity with nature
- Romantic verse suffused with reverence for natural world
- Inspired by environment, encourage people to venture into new territories
- The marginalised and oppressed
- Wordsworth concerned with elitism of earlier poets, not accessible to ordinary people
- Poetry should be democratic
- Tried to give a voice to those who tended to be marginalised
- Blake was radical in his political views, addressed social issues and concerns about the monarchy and church
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