The Romantic period or Romantic era lasted from the finish of the Eighteenth Century towards the mid 19th Century.

Romanticism was a motion which highlighted the importance of:

  • The individual emotions, feelings, and expressions of artists.
  • It rejected rigid forms and structures. Instead, it placed keen stress on the private, unique experience of an creative person/writer.
  • Romanticism gave smashing value to nature, and artists feel within nature. This was in stark contrast to the rapid industrialisation of society in the Nineteenth Century.
  • Romanticism was considered idealistic – a conventionalities in greater ethics than materialism and rationalism and the potential dazzler of nature and mystical experience.
  • Romanticism was influenced by the ethics of the French and American revolution, which sought to complimentary homo from a rigid autocratic society. Over time, it too became more associated with burgeoning nationalistic movements, eastward.g. move for Italian independence.

Famous Romantic Poets

poet William Blake (1757 –1827) Poet, artist, and mystic. Blake wrote Songs of Innocence, Songs of Feel, The Four Zoas, and Jerusalem. Blake is not considered a classical, romantic poet, just his new style of verse and mystical feel of nature had a significant influence on the growth of romanticism.

poet Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish romantic poet who was influential in the evolution of romantic verse. He wrote in both English and Scottish and also contributed to radical politics.

poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 –1834) English romantic poet and a member of the "Lakes Poets." Coleridge's famous poems included The Rime of the Aboriginal Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan. Coleridge helped to bring to England the concept of German idealism. (an of import strand of Romanticism)

poet Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) English language romantic poet, who led a flamboyant, extravagant lifestyle – travelling across Europe. His works included Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and She Walks in Beauty.

poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 –1822) English language romantic poet, and friend to John Keats. Famous works include Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound and Adonais – his tribute to Keats. Shelley was besides an atheist and radical political writer.

John_Keats John Keats (1795 – 1821) English Romantic poet. Ane of his best-known works is Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1817). Famous poems include; A Thing of Beauty (Endymion), Bright Star, When I Have Fears , Ode To A Nightingale.

Writers of the Romantic menstruation

willy-brandt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) German language poet, playwright, and author. Goethe'southward piece of work The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) influential in creating an ideal of a passionate and sensitive principal graphic symbol.

Walter_Scott Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. Scott's novels gained a global entreatment, and he was an important romantic novelist. Notable works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, and Waverley.

Mary Shelley Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851) English language novelist, curt story writer, dramatist, essayist, and travel writer. Shelley wrote Frankenstein (1818). Shelley was a political radical, expressing more support for greater social co-functioning than typical of more individualistic romantics.

Honore_de_Balzac Honore de Balzac (1799 –  1850) French novelist and short story author. Balzac was an influential realist author who created characters of moral ambiguity – often based on his own real-life examples. His greatest work was the collection of short stories La Comédie Humaine.

french Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870) Writer of historical dramas such equally The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and the Marie Antoinette romances. Dumas was a larger than life character and influential writer.

french Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) Perhaps the greatest French author. Noted for his poetry and novels. His novels include Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831. Besides became a leading Republican.

Gustave_Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880) Influential French writer who combined both literary realism with aspects of the romantic tradition. He is all-time known for his novel Madame Bovary (1857).

Writers of the American Romantic Era

Edgar_Allan_Poe Edgar Allan Poe (1809 –  1849) American poet and writer. Poe is considered an influential member of the American Romantic movement. He wrote fiction, verse, essays and literary criticism.

writer Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) American poet. Wrote Leaves of Grass, a groundbreaking new style of poetry. Whitman was a span between the movements of transcendentalism and realism.

writer Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) American female poet. Led secluded lifestyle, and left a legacy of many, brusk vivid poems, often on themes of expiry and immortality.

Romantic Artists

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Eugène Delacroix – La liberté Guidant le Peuple. Commemorates the French Revolution of 1830 (July Revolution) on 28 July 1830.

Francisco_de_Goya Francisco José de Goya (1746 – 1828) Spanish romantic painter. De Goya combined the classical style of the Old Masters with a new realism, ambivalence and imagination.

artist John M.W. Turner (1775 – 1851) British landscape artist. Known as the painter of light, Turner was an artistic effigy from the Romantic period and one of the precursors to Impressionism.

Constable John Constable (1776 – 1837) English romantic painter. Lawman was noted for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale – offering an idealised view of the countryside – one of the ideals of romanticism.

Eugene_Delacroix Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) French romantic painter. Delacroix was influential for pioneering an expressive apply of colour, movement, imagination and romantic content. He was influential for the impressionists.

Composers of the Romantic period

Hector_Berlioz Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869) French composer of the Romantic period. Berlioz equanimous a Requiem for 210 voices Grande Messe des mortsouthward (Requiem) and Symphonie fantastique.

Felix-Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) High german composer of the romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and bedchamber music. His famous works include Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) (1830), Violin Concerto in East minor, Op. 64 (1844)

frederic-chopin Frederick Chopin (1810 – 1849) Polish-built-in Classical composer. Important compositions include piano collections, Études, Opp. 10 and 25, and the 24 Preludes, Op. 28. Chopin also wrote numerous polonaises, sonatas, waltzes, impromptus and nocturnes.

Franz_Liszt Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist. Liszt was a prominent member of the "New German Schoolhouse" of musicians. Significant compositions include; Pianoforte Sonata in B minor (1853), "Liebesträume No. 3″.

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) Russian composer. Tchaikovsky was the greatest composer of the Romantic flow. Compositions include the 1812 Overture, Romeo and Juliet Overture, Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor and ballet compositions – Swan Lake and Nutcracker.

Saint-Saens Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921) French composer, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. Famous works include  Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse Macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880) and The Carnival of the Animals (1887).

Gabriel-Faure Gabriel Faure (1845 – 1924) French composer of the late Romantic catamenia. Faure composed intimate Bedchamber music and many compositions for the piano. Famous works include choral masterpieces – Pavane and Requiem, and his Nocturnes for piano, such as Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune".

Edvard_Grieg Edvard Greig (1843 – 1907) Norwegian composer. Greig was i of the nearly notable composers of the Romantic period. Famous works include – Pianoforte Concerto in A minor Op. 16, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, Iv. (In the Hall of the Mountain Rex) and Peer Gynt Suite No.one

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