What is Romantic Poetry? Discuss
its chief features.
As a matter of first
importance, it is required to clarify the meaning of Romanticism. Romanticism
has been the subject of hot controversy among the critics of the world. Nobody
has had the ability to present a suitable meaning of the term Romanticism. Romanticism was a literary and intellectual movement in Europe
that started in the late decades of 18th century. It was with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, which gave
birth to Romanticism in the history of English literature. Cazamian defines Romanticism in A
History of English Literature as, “The Romantic spirit can be defined as an accentuated predominance of
emotional life, provoked or directed by the exercise of imaginative vision, and
in its turn stimulating or directing such exercise.” Some critics considered Romanticism as “Renascence of Wonder.” Whatever the case may be, it is evident that Romanticism came into
being as a reaction against the neoclassicism of the preceding age. Neoclassical poetry is
poetry of intellect and reason, while romantic poetry is the product of
emotions, sentiments and the voice of the heart of the poet.According to
William J. Long, “The Romantic Movement was marked, and
is always marked, by a strong reaction and protest against the bondage of rule
and custom which in science and theology as well as literature, generally tend
to fetter the free human spirit.”.......................................................................................................
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