Title: ROMANTICISM AND WORDSWORTH
Headings: ROMANTICISM AND WORDSWORTH
ROMANTICISM AND WORDSWORTH
Content: It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature. It elevated folk art, nature and custom, as well as arguing for an epistemology based on nature, which included human activity conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage. The ideologies and events of the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution are thought to have influenced the movement. Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. In a general sense, the term "Romanticism" has been used to refer to certain artists, poets, writers, musicians, as well as political, philosophical and social thinkers of the late XVIII and early XIX centuries.. Despite this general usage of the term, many attempts have been made to describe what Romanticism and the term “romantic” refer to: for some Romanticism had its beginnings in the English XVII century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_era
These differing versions of the age and lineage of Romanticism are matched with a corresponding diversity in the descriptions offered by those of our time who have given special care to the observation of it. Romanticism was a fairy way of writing; it implies reminiscence, the romantic schools have always depended more or less on the past.