What Is Romantic Poetry? About The Movement In The Romantic Era
ROMANTIC POETRY – In this topic, we are going to know and learn about the movement in the Romantic era known as Romantic poetry.
It is, as mentioned, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The movement lasted from 1800 to 1850.
In England, is characterized by the sublime, the reaction against Neoclassicism, imagination, the love for nature, and melancholy, among others.
The movement dominated French literature from the first half of the century. It can be felt in theatre, poetry, prose fiction. It could be felt in the latter half of the 19th-century in diverse literary developments, such as “realism”, “symbolism”, and the fin de siècle “decadent” movement.
German Romanticism scopes in philosophy, the arts, and the culture of German-speaking countries in the late-18th and early 19th centuries. It was developed relatively late and coincided with Weimar Classicism. There are two types, Jena Romanticism, and Heidelberg Romanticism.
In Poland, it is a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture. It began at around 1820, and ended with the suppression of the Polish-Lithuanian January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1864.
Examples
Here are some of the examples:
My heart leaps up by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die …
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry
Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side
My cradled infant slumbers peacefully …
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner’s hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.’
‘God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow
I shot the ALBATROSS …
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