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Who were the Precursors of the Romantic Movement? Discuss why they were called so?/ What is Romanticism? How did it find its way into the English literary scenario?
Who were the Precursors of the Romantic Movement? Discuss why they were called so?/ What is Romanticism? How did it find its way into the English literary scenario?
Who were
the Precursors of the Romantic Movement? Discuss why they were called so?/ What is Romanticism? How did it find
its way into the English literary scenario?
Romanticism (also the Romantic era
or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, musical and
intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th
century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800
to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and
individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring
the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the
Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age
of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components
of modernity. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts,
music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education,
and the natural sciences. It had a significant and complex effect on
politics, with romantic thinkers influencing liberalism, radicalism,
conservatism and nationalism.
With the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798,
literally the Romantic Movement started in England. However, the
simplicity of diction, love of nature, attachment to human emotions, traits of
super naturalism which are the basic features of Coleridge
and Wordsworth’s poetry, can have its stress another fifty years
back. In the poetry of James Thomson, William Collins, Thomas Grey, William
Cowper etc. we have the fervent of early romantics. Let us discuss them under
the following heads..............................
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