Romanticism
Romanticism, or the Romantic movement, was a movement, or style of art, literature and music in the late 18th and the early 19th century in Europe.
The movement believed that feelings, imagination, nature, human life, freedom of expression, individualism and old folk traditions, such as legends and fairy tales, were important.[1] It was a reaction to the aristocratic social and political ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and of the Industrial Revolution.[1][2]
It was also a reaction against turning nature into mere science.[2]
The movement showed most strongly in arts like music and literature. However, it also had an important influence on historiography,[3] education,[4] and natural history.[5]
Examples
United Kingdom
British Romanticism was notable, as the United Kingdom was an early adopter of industrialization and science. It included figures like the following:
Germany
During the same period as in Britain, a notable Romantic movement occurred in Germany. Important motifs were travel, nature, and Germanic myths. It included figures like the following:
Romanticism Media
John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888, after a poem by Tennyson
Henry Wallis, The Death of Chatterton 1856, by suicide at 17 in 1770
William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips, c. 1813. The Byronic hero first reached the wider public in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818).
Robert Burns in Alexander Nasmyth's portrait of 1787
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Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Romanticism -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". britannica.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Casey, Christopher (2008). "Grecian grandeurs and the rude wasting of old time: Britain, the Elgin Marbles, and post-revolutionary Hellenism". Foundations. Volume III, Number 1. Archived from the original on 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, and Parkman (1967)
- ↑ Gerald Lee Gutek, A history of the Western educational experience (1987) ch. 12 on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- ↑ Ashton Nichols, "Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2005 149(3): 304-315
Other websites
- The Romantic Poets
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas Archived 2009-09-14 at the Wayback Machine, Romanticism
- Romantic Circles Electronic editions, histories, and scholarly articles related to the Romantic era
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas Archived 2008-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, Romanticism in Political Thought
- Romanticism in the "History of Art" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Romanticism in the Art History Archive