However, since most poets thrived on the emotional and foolish abstract that they were writing about, there was no specific category that this mode of thinking could fall into. ... The middle ages were regarded as a creative period when humans lived close to the soil and were perfect with the effects of industrialization or urbanization. ...
Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ... This new duty and a new love interest in Wieck's student Ernestine von Fricken, helped restore his emotional well being which in turn helped his self...
Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ... This new duty and a new love interest in Wieck's student Ernestine von Fricken, helped restore his emotional well being which in turn helped his self...
On top of this, there was a clearly mystical quality to Romantic writing that sets it apart from other literary periods" "(Rahn). ... "Melancholy' was quite the buzzword for the Romantic poets, and altered states of consciousness were often sought after in order to enhance one's creative potential"" (Rahn). ... They used their imagination to help them improve their writing to make it more mysterious and enchanting. ...
Byron considered Alexander Pope--an important satirist in the Age of Reason--as a model for him and his writing, thus influencing his own satirical style. ... The spirit of Napoleon served as a "spur to Byron's own ambition, his dissidence, the glamour of his arrogancethat permeates his writing" (MacCarthy vii). Napoleon's sense of flamboyance and his overall image fostered Byron's "own creative strain of mockery" (MacCarthy vii). ... Byron is truthfully cruel in his writing while maintaining the romantic thought. ... By writing, he also encouraged people to...
