General Characteristics of Romanticism: ·It values feelings and intuition.直觉over reason The power of imagination The beauty of unspoiled nature Youthful innocence Individual freedom
General Characteristics of Romanticism: • It values feelings and intuition直觉 over reason • The power of imagination • The beauty of unspoiled nature • Youthful innocence • Individual freedom
Poetry is the highest expression of imagination. The lessons of the past,myth,legend, and folk culture. ·The beauty in the exotic异国的，the supernatural,and in the imagination
Poetry is the highest expression of imagination. • The lessons of the past, myth, legend, and folk culture. • The beauty in the exotic异国的, the supernatural, and in the imagination
Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Romantic---love(partly)(mainly)man and the world
Introduction to Romanticism • Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. • Romantic---love(partly)—(mainly)man and the world
The Romantic period(narrowly) Beginning in 1798,the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.抒情歌谣by Wordsworth and Coleridge Ending in 1832,the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe
The Romantic period(narrowly) • Beginning in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads抒情歌谣 by Wordsworth and Coleridge • Ending in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe
Extended Period At least in the 1770's till the second half of the nineteenth century,later for American literature than for European; o and later in some of the arts,like music and painting,than in literature
Extended Period • At least in the 1770's till the second half of the nineteenth century, later for American literature than for European; • and later in some of the arts, like music and painting, than in literature
Romantic the poetry of Robert Burns and William Blake in England,the early writings of Goethe and Schiller in Germany,and the great period of influence for Rousseau's writings throughout Europe
• Romantic the poetry of Robert Burns and William Blake in England, the early writings of Goethe and Schiller in Germany, and the great period of influence for Rousseau's writings throughout Europe
The early Romantic period The early Romantic period coincides with what is often called the "age of revolutions"--including,the American (1776)and the French(1789)revolutions and the Industrial Revolution. An age of upheavals in political,economic. and social traditions
The early Romantic period • The early Romantic period coincides with what is often called the "age of revolutions"--including, the American (1776) and the French (1789) revolutions and the Industrial Revolution. • An age of upheavals in political, economic, and social traditions
Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art. Uniting both reason and feeling ("intellectual intuition"),imagination is praised as the ultimate synthesizing faculty,enabling humans to reconcile differences and opposites in the world of appearance
Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art. • Uniting both reason and feeling ("intellectual intuition"), imagination is praised as the ultimate synthesizing faculty, enabling humans to reconcile differences and opposites in the world of appearance
Nature o Nature as a healing power,a source of subject and image,a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization... o Romanticism displaced the rationalist view of the universe as a machine with the analogy of an "organic"image,a living tree or mankind itself
Nature • Nature as a healing power, a source of subject and image, a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization… • Romanticism displaced the rationalist view of the universe as a machine with the analogy of an "organic" image, a living tree or mankind itself
Romantic nature poetry is essentially a poetry of meditation沉思. 。 诗歌是强烈感情之富于想象力的表达 在 宁静中积聚起来的强烈情感的自发流露 Poetry is the imaginative expression of strong feelings...the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility. --William Wordsworth
• Romantic nature poetry is essentially a poetry of meditation沉思. • 诗歌是强烈感情之富于想象力的表达，在 宁静中积聚起来的强烈情感的自发流露。 • Poetry is the imaginative expression of strong feelings…the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility. ---William Wordsworth