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  • Romantic Nature Of Poetry
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    At the end of the eighteenth century a new literature arose in England. It was called, Romanticism, and it opposed most of the ideas held earlier in the century. Romanticism had its roots in a changed attitude toward mankind. The forerunners of the Romanticists argued that men are naturally good; society makes them bad. If the social world could be changed, all men might be happier. Many reforms were suggested: better treatment of people in prisons and almshouses; fewer death penalties for minor...
  • William Blake And William Wordsworth
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    THE SPIRIT OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD WOLLSTONECRAFT, BLAKE, AND WORDSWORTH Regina Daniels English Literature 10/23/93 The Romantic Period in English literature was an era that brought forth profound literary rebellion. Romantics were truly rebels. They were in total defiance of the morals set by the movement known as the neoclassical period. The Romantics were also idealists, who believed in change. These idealists wrote about the change they wanted, socially as well as politically. Nature, both hu...
  • Its Own The Romantic Movement
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    Romanticism If the Enlightenment was a movement, which started among a tiny elite, and slowly spread to make its influence felt throughout society, Romanticism was more widespread both in its origins and influence. No other intellectual / artistic movement has had comparable variety, reach, and staying power since the end of the Middle Ages. Beginning in Germany and England in the 1770's, by the 1820's it had swept through Europe, conquering at last even its most stubborn foe, the French. It tra...
  • Hawkeye's Small Settlement
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    "The Last Of The Mohicans"; The Last American Romantic A loud crack pierces the still silence of the forest as M agua, a Huron guide, plunges his tomahawk into the body of a British soldier. Gunshots erupt from the darkness of the forest all around Cora and Alice cutting down the company of soldiers assigned to protect them. As if appearing from thin air two Mohicans and a white man come to their rescue, killing all of the Hurons. This white man was named Hawkeye, and was the main character of t...
  • Written His Material In The 19th Century
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    Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed the way people perceived themselves and the state of nature around them. Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constricted, rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. This not only influenced political doctrines and ideology, but was also a sharp contrast ...
  • Rip Van Winkle
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    American Romanticism: Washington Irvin and James Fenimore Cooper Both Washington Irvin and James Fenimore Cooper were essential for the development of a totally new kind of American art. These writers, influenced by the romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott, based their works on legends as well as on historical characters. If we analyse and compare Rip Van Winkle by Irvin and The last of the Mohicans by Cooper we will surely discover various romantic elements that reveal the writers' approach towar...
  • Profound Imagination Of The Romantic Writer
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    The period of Romanticism in English literature was in many senses a reaction to the Enlightenment which preceded it. The objectivity and sheer rationality of the Enlightenment was held in disdain by the Romantics, who saw it as a period "which did not allow feeling and imagination to outweigh reason". The essence of Romantic thought springs from a soul which "protests against whatever exists, aspiring to something else without knowing what it is" (Thorlby 22). This unrest within the Romantic mo...

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