Studies in Romantic Literature: Overview

What is Romanticism?

• A celebration of nature.

• A movement in the arts and literature that fixated on rationality and morals.

• A movement that emphasized the importance of emotional sensitivity and individual subjectivity.

• An artistic movement that emphasized sensitivity and rationality.

The movement began around the

• 18th Century

• late 16th and early 17th Century

• 17th Century

• late 18th and early 19th Century

Select a few romantic authors

• John Keats

• Percy B. Shelly

• T. S. Eliot

• Edgar A. Poe

Name a few characteristics of the movement

• Themes of Solitude

• Emphasis on Realism

• Glorification of Nature

• Celebrating uniqueness and individuality

Select a few themes

• Nature

• Morals

• Satire

• Emotions

• Supernaturalism