Title: Your Complete Crash Course to Romantic Poetry
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Your Complete Crash Course to Romantic Poetry
What Is Romanticism? Definition, Historical Context, and Key Characteristics
What Caused Romanticism?
The Enlightenment Versus The Romantic Era
Romantic Poetry: The Superstar of the Romantic Era
In general, the Romantic poets explored three main topics in their poetry:
Theme 1: The Relationship Between Humanity and Nature
Theme 2: The Gothic and the Surreal
Theme 3: Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets
Odes
Lyric Poems
Sonnets
How These Forms Work in Romantic Poetry
Poetic Genius: Philosophizing About Poets and Poetry
Top 7 Romantic Era Poets You Definitely Need to Know
William Blake
Works You Should Know:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works You Should Know:
William Wordsworth
Works You Should Know
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Works You Should Know
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Works You Should Know
John Keats
Works You Should Know
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Works You Should Know
2 Romantic Poems, Explicated
“Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud,” by William Wordsworth
4 Best Books To Build Your Knowledge of the Romantic Era
The Penguin Book of American Poetry
Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction
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Ashley Robinson
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Content: The revolutionary spirit in France sparked an interest in rebellion throughout Europe and played a big role in setting the tone of the Romantic Era. The Enlightenment Versus The Romantic Era
The great thinkers of the Romantic Era had something to say in response to the Enlightenment, industrialization, and the French Revolution. First, Romantic Era thinkers reacted to the cold, hard rationalism of the Enlightenment by reviving a connection to emotion and feeling, the irrationality of the natural world, and a belief in the freedom and genius of the individual thinker. Second, in response to the mass production and urbanization fuelled by the Industrial Revolution, the Romantics emphasized the tranquility of rural landscapes, the power and grandeur of natural phenomena, and the need to honor and preserve the wildness of nature. Finally, the ideals of freedom, independence, and equality that characterized the French Revolution spread throughout Europe and became hallmarks of the spirit of Romanticism as well. Romantic Era thinkers resisted the idea that society could control the individual mind, creativity, and imagination, and rebelled against any forces that tried to confine them. And that pretty much sums up the main elements in the emergence of Romanticism! Next, we’ll talk about one of the main forms of expression that helped define the characteristics of Romanticism and really brought about the spirit of the age: Romantic poetry. Romantic Poetry: