Romantics believed that God's presence was embodied in nature and evidence of His existence. ... For Romantic artists it was not intellect or reason which mattered, but feelings and emotions. ... The style of the Baroque was very different from the style of the Romantic era. ... Below is an example of what Romantic art encompassed. ... Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as romantic, although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. ...

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Other institutional influences on American romanticism include the rise and professionalization of science, against which Romantic writers reacted. ... Aesthetically, the romantics were also in a state of revolt, primarily against the restraints of classicism and formalism. ... Significant American Romantic Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson Considered to be a founding writer and philosopher within the American romantic movement, Emerson is perhaps best known for his essays, from which emerge the grounding notions of Transcendentalism. ... Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Hawtho...

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The Romantic period was a time when music began to take on a different meaning. ... An example of one of these progressions occurring mainly during the Romantic period was when composers and audiences alike started turning towards program music. ... Bent 2 During the romantic period, the general feeling began to surface that music could be made even more expressive by channeling it through literature; especially poetry. ... However, the people of the Romantic period did not care. ... This transition during the Romantic period, beginning to compose program music, created a lot of changes in how...

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To do this, the Romantics had to undertake a journey that intended to seek individualism. ... In short, the concept of tourism does not support the Romantics notion of experiencing self-discovery. ... The typical romantic figure became the poet and Romantics began to turn away from the scientist and instead towards the poet. ... German poet Goethe wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which became known as the epitome of the Romantic Movement. ... It is because audiences are still attracted to the romantic notion of following their heart. ...

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Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ... In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the role of the Imagination. ... Although Wordsworths "Preface" and Coleridges definition of Imagination illuminate the meaning and purpose of Romanticism, the extent to which Romantic poems truly express their vision varies. ... Coleridges dual definitio...

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Romantic poets belonging to that era challenged rationalism in areas such as religion, science, and philosophy. ... Romantic poets valued subjective thinking over rational thinking. ... Coleridge's mention of "the Almighty Spirit" also indicates the poem's Romantic orientation. ... Also, the fact that Whitman related his observations from an individual perspective reflects a romantic influence. Whitman blends reminiscence with a sense of purpose in the poem as well, basically ennobling it, again reflecting Romantic influence. ...

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One can arguably say that the worlds of the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and the German Romantic writer E.T.A. ... Schumann and Hoffmann were linked in many aspects of life including their shared passion for both literature and music, and in their eccentric and slight bipolar personalities - The similarities in their Romantic views as well as the way they expressed themselves through art form was uncanny. ... The idea of the narrations being incomplete in itself, but fitting in the context of the entire novel goes with the idea of Romantic fragments; something unstable ...

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... The American frontier also influenced the Romantic Movement in the early 1800s as many looked to the west as an opportunity for growth and personal freedom that Europe lacked. ... The vast unknown of the American West appealed to the Romantic followers as they saw nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration for the soul. ... The Romantic Movement saw many authors become household names. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became...

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John Keats was a respected English writer from the Romantic Era, specifically known for his poetry. His poems embody the essence of the romantic time period, and the typical fashion of poets during this point in history. ... Literature from the Romantic Era emphasizes originality and a love for nature. "One of the most popular themes of Romantic poetry was country life, otherwise known as pastoral poetry. ... The English Romantic poets were particularly drawn to medievalism and mythology. ...

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Griffith points out the fact that Frankenstein displays these ideas of the Romantic era through Victor Frankenstein and through the monster, which at times he believes are the same person. ... The idea of feelings being a primary issue in the Romantic era is displayed through the monster because he is described as being a child without a choice of being born and basically just wanting to be loved by someone, which shows the primacy of feelings. ... Griffith also points out another idea of the Romantic era and this is, "that the monster sees in the De Laceys the loving family he has never known...

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William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. Most of the romantic writings included emotions, imagination and "reveled in nature." (220) One poet and poem that applies not only nature, but life and death to emphasize its message, is William Cullen Bryant and his renowned poem "Thanotopsis". A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ... He helps get the ball rolling for the Romantic period while acting as ...

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However, it was the French revolution which began the Romantic era and is one of the main factors of the bringing about of this novel; this is because without Romantic ideals the novel would have simply not worked. ... The Romantic Period was known for a change in the direction of the thinking process. Before this, the common outlook on subjects was outward, while the new found Romantics looked inwards. ... In all, Romantic ideals were further pushed and given explanation by this story. ... This is because Mary Shelley set out to express her Romantic ideals. ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. ... By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. ... By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ...

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There is an undeniable link between William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and the main belief structure of the Romantics of his time. 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. ... It was through this work that his core feelings about Romantically controversial issues came to a head. ... Aside from solely Blakean philosophy, Songs portrays a slew of blatantly Romantic ideas. ...

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Second, I will explain why and on what basis the German romantic Johann Georg Hamann loathed modern science and the bold claims of the Enlightenment. ... As a true Romantic and a Christian extremist, Johann Georg Hamann's values were in opposition with those of the Enlightenment. Romantics held fast that emotions, feelings, and experiencing nature were much more important that rationalization. ... Wright clearly understands the beauty and majesty of God's creation, although he is not a Romantic like Hamann. ... The Enlightenment ideals of reason and individualism are a stark cont...

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Also her husband Percy Shelley wrote a number of poems and was greatly into the Romantic Movement. Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the individual. ... The Romantic Movement marked the practice and reaction in literature, art, religion and politics. ... Nature was also greatly used and ...

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Like Poe, Baudelaire disliked the romantic reverence for spontaneity and inspiration. ... Baudelaire also rejected the Romantic theme of nature worship. ... Baudelaire's rejection of Romantic themes did not extend to the Romantic reverence for nostalgia and memory. ... He states in fact in La peintre de la vie moderne that "genius is only childhood recovered at will." [2 (pp 40-43)] Baudelaire displayed a romantic view on beauty, as he would often associate it with imagination and reverie. ...

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As the romantics sought to rise above all dull realities in search of higher truth, they began a movement revolving around exotic settings, in the more natural past state, or world distant from the typical industrial age of the time. Romantics began to be able to mold worlds from their own perceptions, sometimes finding these worlds through the supernatural, or in legends or folklore. Secondly, Romantics contemplated the natural world until its dull reality vanished, solely revealing its underlying beauty and truth. Arising from these new techniques came the Romantic approach to the developmen...

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He was a man of many paradoxes and with a flamboyant and outrageous lifestyle; he shone new light on the Romantic Movement. ... He was not only an English Romantic poet but also presented historical tragedy, romantic narrative, ode and especially epic satire to Romanticism. ... Like other romantic poets, Byron often used highly structured and rigid traditional forms to craft his poems (Knight 208). ... Byron is truthfully cruel in his writing while maintaining the romantic thought. ... In 1812 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was published, increasing Byron's reputation which then on only...

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William Wordsworth is commonly regarded as the vanguard poet of the Romantic movement in British literature. ... Wordsworth's veneration of nature was typical of the Romantic lyricists, who often practiced forms of pantheism and mysticism, seeking transcendence through natural awareness. ...

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William Blake and William Wordsworth were two poets from the Romantic period. ... He was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. ... William Wordsworth and William Blake while both being part of the romantic period had different views on the way it related to humanity, spirituality and imagination. ...

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Consider both the gothic and romantic language he uses to describe what occurs throughout the entire poem. ... In stanza 105-106, there's a hair-raising wind that blows past the mariner "Like a meadow-gale of spring" The romantic element of this poem is especially strong when the mariner uses the simile of a painting to describe the stillness in the ocean: "As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." This description of eerie stillness isn't only gothic, but romantic in the fact that it highlights how natural surroundings feel emotionally to an individual. .....

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Romantic writer Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein conforms to these conventional "classic" Gothic traits as well as to the modern conceptions of what is considered as Gothic. ... However, its concerns with radical social reform, along with the workings of the imagination and an interest in nature, Frankenstein identifies itself as a classic Gothic novel with important links to the Romantic movement. ... This aspect links the Gothicism of the novel to the Romantic period, a period closely related with nature. ... Victor's action is the result of the "working imagination", an aspe...

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The Romantic era grew alongside the Enlightenment, but concentrated on human diversity and looking at life in a new way. ... The Romantics turned to the poet before the scientist to harbor their convictions. ...

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