1. William Wordsworth
Wordsworth, in his autobiographical The Prelude (1805), promotes the Romantic ideology when he describes his own childhood: Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Foster'd alike by beauty and by fear; Much favor'd in my birth-place, and no less In that beloved Vale to which, erelong, I was transplanted. ... (Wordsworth, 2003, I, 306-317) The elevation of the rural is demonstrated here as Wordsworth recalls his "beloved Vale" and his "joy" of exploring his surroundings. ...
Romanticism was a very imaginative and intellectual period that originated in Europe during the 18th century and distinguished itself by a heightened awareness in nature and emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination. It was more extensive in its genesis and persuasion. In ...
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! -America the Beautiful, Katherine Lee Bates The growth of American Literature was further developed in the era of American Romanticism. In this period, stirrings of national consciousn...
ROMANTICISM In the nineteenth century, the foundation of American literature had a profound change. This was called from Reason to Romance or Romanticism. With many contributions of famous writers such as Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Poe composed the stories and poems which all of them...
The contextual circumstances in which a literary work is composed have a profound effect on the ideas and opinions that composers express within them. This is most notable when examining Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1817). Both texts allude to the th...
Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William...
