Although all aspects of the humanities were affected, Romantic art truly displays the major characteristics of Romantic thinkers and artists during this period of the Western Humanities. ... Francisco Goya left an important legacy as the embodiment of the romantic spirit. His Romantic Style. ... The Raft of the Medusa was truly the keystone to the romantic style as it embodied the values that all other romantic artists would follow. ... His Romantic Style.Gericault is truly the leader of the French romantics because in his often dark and gloomy paintings he expressed his personal emotions and ...

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There are the romantic thoughts expressed about the unknown and the undiscovered. ... In recent times prior to the Romantic period, monsters were rare. ... Later she would be acknowledged as one of the great female romantic writers of her time. ... But she was a true romantic in the way in which she thought outside the box and thought in her own way. She had an imagination and a desire for change which made her a great romantic writer. ...

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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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It also shows the social criticisms or protests that the author enjoyed, as well as the other Romantic's did. ... A supernatural element also characteristic of the Romantic Poet is evident in England 1819 with the emergence of the "Phantom" in the last stanza. ... Kubla Khan is an amazing example of imaginative thought associated so closely with the Romantic Poets. ... Both the supernatural and the past were strong themes for the Romantic Poets. ... These characteristics of the Romantics have been echoed in the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. ...

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Though the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. ... Whereas many eighteenth century prose-writers depended on assumptions about the suitability of various prose styles for various purposes which they shared with their relatively small but sophisticated public; writers in the Romantic period were rather more concerned with subject matter and emotional expression than with appropriate style. ... There was also an indication of a growing distrust of the sharp distinction between matter and manner which wa...

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John Constable's The Cornfield is an English Landscape that was created during the Romantic Period using oil on canvas. ... When looking for the similarities between these two works, most can be attributed to the fact that they were both painted during the Romantic Period. ... Despite the many differences between these paintings, they are both great examples of landscapes from the Romantic Period. ...

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The first area in which the Romantic writings were opened was the writings on and by women. ... The Romantic period strongly emphasized the lives of children. ... During this new era William Wordsworth was the most important writer of the romantic writers. ... Only in the Romantic Period do readers see the concept of death of children. ... These issues were vital to the Romantic period and every piece of writing afterward....

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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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In his sculpture, L' estasi di Santa Teresa (1647 - 1652), Bernini uses dramatic and sensual waves in the woman's hair and gown, which portrays that she is submissive and wishes to be touched. http://www.thais.it/scultura/image/sch00349.htm During the early Romantic period, the role of women was broadened from being merely housewives and mothers to one with more educational duties. The issue of woman's rights was addressed during the early Romantic period for three reasons: the French Revolution, legislation in, and finally, the Industrial Revolution. ... Towards the ...

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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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Romantic poetry was initially a reaction against the Neo-classicist form of poetry, which was strongly rooted in the structure laid down by the Greeks and Romans in Classic or Classicist poetry. Romantic poets disliked this tendency of looking to the past, they were well aware of industrial world growing around them and they tended to look to the world of nature for there inspiration. ... This state, in the eyes of the Romantic, is represented by nature. ... The nature presented in Romantic poetry is viewed as an escape from the ugly, over-bearing industrial world that the poets believed stifl...

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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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Often the concept explored is the Romantic vision of childhood, yet this is not always the case. ... In Blake's Songs of Innocence, "Laughing Song" could be regarded as a poem that directly explores the idea of the Romantic childhood. The way in which nature is explored and portrayed in the poem is of particular significance to the Romantic concept of childhood. The Romantics believed that a natural or rural childhood was of paramount importance, possibly because this idea was integral to Romantic theology itself. ... Extending this idea of nature and the Romantic childhood, Bla...

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John Keats: The Tragic Life of a Romantic Poet John Keats was born in 1795 and wouldn't live to see his twenty-sixth birthday. ... The life of John Keats, who is credited as being one of great Romantic poets, was in itself a tragedy, beginning with the death of his parents when he was a young child, the death of his brother Tom, and finally the death and demise of Keats himself. ... Even with the tragic losses of two parents, his brother Tom, and finally the sickness and death of Keats himself, he still had the power to emerge as one of the great Romantic poets of British literature. ...

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The use of color in Romantic paintings is bold visually and figuratively. ... - not realistic clouds, but romantic clouds. ... The shadows in Deer are also more realistic than romantic. ... Another very popular unrealistic Romantic icon is the presence of nudity. ... This is Romantic. ...

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This is the central creed of the great Romantic poets Rene Wellek (refrece) The Romantic period was therefore characterised by a return to nature and feelings. ... Romantic poets were also very concerned with the world around them and the people in it. Most of the Romantic poets, or poets influenced by Romanticism, lodged a sort of social protest within their poetry. ... Hopkins's questioning and departure from Romantic views can be seen when contrasted with other Romantic poetry. ... So although Hopkins was influenced by the Romantics he was a supporter and preacher of Catholicism...

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This action reflects the romantic idea of alienating oneself from its ordinary environment. ... Characteristic like many romantic works, the book ends in a "magnificent failure". ... The choices he makes throughout the story make him a typical romantic hero. ... Embracing the romantic attitude, Turgenev interacts the sons with the lower class serfs. ... Like many romantic heroes, Elis fled home and died tragically. ...

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1. The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. The philosophes made it clear that God, revelation, Scripture, and all of the other ingredients of traditional Christianity were subjects of scorn. Scholars in many countries found...

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When art falls short of the ideal expectations then that is the result of "Symbolic" art, and when it exceeds such expectations of ideal beauty, then it takes the form of "Romantic" art. ... In "Romantic" art, the content is conceived in such a way that it is sufficient enough in its expression in sensuous, visible form, yet also able to transcend into the realm of the sensuous and visible. "Classical" art is the embodiment of ideal perfection in beauty, whereas "Romantic" art embodies "beauty of inwardness", or "beauty of deep f...

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Some elements would place this kind of love within romantic tradition, like the intense involvement with nature, some mystical references, the wish of death from the lovers, and the most important: the longing for a soul unity with the beloved. ... But in this novel we find another kind of romantic love' in the sense that for romantics Love passion involves suffering, mostly because this romantic love can't be fulfilled, as it happens to the protagonists in the novel; Catherine and Heathcliff cannot find a way to be together except in the grave. ... Here, this ideal of romantic lo...

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William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. ... This Romantic period known as the Romantic Era or as other may know it as the Romantic period was at its peak in the period from 1800 to 1850. During this romantic era many writers sought to unite the tranquility of nature and the inner emotional world of men. ... This poem is distinctive to any other romantic poems because it depicts a woman with the poets changing perspective toward this striking woman. ... William Wordsworth's aim for the romantic age during the 1800's was to create...

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Many great novels emerged from the romantic period. ... It was at Cambridge that Forster came into the romantic manner of thought. ... Again, the freedom to express passion is predominant in this novel as it would be in a romantic novel. ... (Forster 3) Forster's construction of characters shows also his inclination to the romantic. ... A Room with a View is an excellent example of a romantic novel. ...

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One of the more popular war poets is Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), who began his career as a poet sometime before the War, and whose earlier style of writing, observed in poems like 'Sonnet Written At Teigmouth, On A Pilgrimage To Keats's House' (1911) was derived from that the Romantic ideology, which stated that poetry 'should be personal (to the point of appearing confessional), sincere (which meant limitations on satire and humor) and richly loaded with imagery' (Purkis 82.) ... The poem shows Owen's individualism through his subversion of popular' imager...

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The Romantic era stressed the belief that nature is good, since they believed that God could be found in everything on the earth. ... [Shelley 80] Romantics believed that every person was born naturally good, but society corrupts the person and makes him bad. ... The authors of the Romantic era had an idea of themselves as creators. ... More people were able to read, but could not understand all of the allusions of the highly educated Romantic writers. ... This was significant since Germany was the center of the Romantic Movement. ...

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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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