Despite the extremist nature of Blake that is ever present in his works, both literary and artistic, his core beliefs stem from the average romantic views infiltrated in society. ... The mythological character, Thel, walks to the edge of the world of innocence and looks into the world of experience only to turn back and not make the crossing. ... However, the sense in which I am defining Romanticism is simply this: a movement consisting of pantheistic nature-loving individuals who wished to break away from the conscripts of traditional literary form, to have a certain appreciation for innoce...

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He became an admired character of London society by influencing Members of Parliament with his bold attitude for encouraging independence. ... The Byronic Hero was "a passionate, moody, restless character who has exhausted most of the world's excitement and who lives under the weight of some mysterious sin committed in the past" (Safier 527). ... The Byronic Hero has no single literary form or fashion but instead an amalgam of several heroes. The literary world used the figure of the Byronic Hero because it gave a more satisfying effect and impression on readers as a character...

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In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", the author depicts the workings of a human mind on the verge of insanity through the use of an allegory of which all characters and events of the story symbolize the human mind's transition into madness, universally conveying the terror that overwhelms and finally destroys the fragile mind of Roderick Usher. Poe establishes many connections for the reader, hinting at the true significance of the story through symbols portrayed as characters and events. ... From the characters representing different aspects of the mind to the ho...

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Constable is known as a Romantic artist, Kathryn Calley Galitz of the Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art writes about Romanticism Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. ... It shows Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. ...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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