Romanticism
Wordsworth's artistic movement
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that emerged in late 18th-century Europe as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrial modernity.
It celebrated emotion, nature, individualism, and the sublime, influencing poetry, painting, music, and philosophy.
Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, and Coleridge are central figures in English Romanticism; Delacroix and Beethoven represent the movement in visual art and music.
The course covered Romanticism and its influence on later literature. (Lowercase romanticism is the general tendency toward idealization.)
Metrical literary composition
- ColeridgeEnglish Romantic verse-maker
- ByronTitled Romantic versifier
- ShelleyEnglish Romantic surname
- KeatsEnglish Romantic poet
Wordsworth · Blake · Hugo · Goethe · Pushkin · Poe · Hawthorne · lyric
Pigment on canvas
- DelacroixFrench Romantic painter
- TurnerOne operating a lathe
- ColeMale given name
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
sublime · picturesque · dramatic · expressive · color · brushwork · ruins · storms
Belief in noble principles
- KantGerman Enlightenment thinker
- HegelGerman absolute idealist philosopher
- SchopenhauerGerman pessimist philosopher
- EmersonAnglo surname, various namesakes
Thoreau · transcendence · organicism · pantheism · genius · imagination · intuition · nature worship
Of countryside or clergy care
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- picturesqueVisually pleasing, paintable
rustic · bucolic · untamed · verdant · sylvan · pantheism · solitude · mountains
The eighteen hundreds
- cultural movementShared shift in beliefs
- TranscendentalismIntuition-based American idealist movement
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
poetry
Metrical literary composition
Wordsworth · Keats · Blake · Hugo · Goethe · Pushkin · Poe · Hawthorne · lyric · ballad
painting
Pigment on canvas
landscape · sublime · picturesque · dramatic · expressive · color · brushwork · ruins · storms · moonlight
idealism
Belief in noble principles
- KantGerman Enlightenment thinker
- HegelGerman absolute idealist philosopher
- SchopenhauerGerman pessimist philosopher
Emerson · Thoreau · transcendence · organicism · pantheism · genius · imagination · intuition · nature worship · anti-rationalism
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
picturesque · rustic · bucolic · untamed · verdant · sylvan · pantheism · solitude · mountains · forests
19th century
The eighteen hundreds
- cultural movementShared shift in beliefs
- TranscendentalismIntuition-based American idealist movement
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
Beethoven
German classical music giant
- ChopinPolish Romantic pianist-composer
- SchubertViennese song composer
- SchumannNineteenth-century German composer
Liszt · Berlioz · Wagner · Brahms · Mendelssohn · symphony · opera · lieder · virtuoso · expressive
- literary movementsRealism, Modernism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Neoclassicism
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, Victorian, modern, contemporary
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- paintingoil painting, watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints
RomanticismNeoclassicism
Revival of ancient aesthetics
Enlightenment · Realism · Modernism · Age of Reason · Minimalism
Romanticismpragmatism
Practical problem-solving philosophy
cynicism · realism · stoicism · restraint · conventionalism
- romanticized historyIdealized view of bygone eras