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 ...
During his years at Harrow, Byron fell madly for his cousin, Mary Chaworth, who later turned him down and became his muse; Mary became the symbol of idealized and unattainable love in Byron's poetry (West 12). ... These extremes focus on the capability of good and evil: "the mortal interacts with the supernatural; pleasure is only found in the acceptance of suffering; there is an unsteady balance between responsibility and resilience against consequences" (West 57). ...
Introduction I have chosen 19th century art and the Aesthetic Movement to consider What is an aesthetic? I chose this period because the aesthetic movement of the 19th century celebrated beauty for its own sake, not just in painting but also in furniture, textiles, ceramics, fashion and architecture. Beauty in the Victorian period was very much linked to lifestyle. It was also the period where photography first started to be widely used. Charles Baudelaire sums up the idea of beauty and aesthetics for me, he said: All beauties contain, like all possible phenomena, something eternal and somet...
